Word: painful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week small Benjamin Hendrick, eating well and feeling no pain, was puzzled by the number of strangers who came to his ward. "Why are all those people looking at me?" he asked his nurse. "Is it because some day I'm going to be an aviator...
...unionizing a great open-shop motor industry. With automobile manufacturers heading into their best season in years, and profits definitely in sight. Labor's bargaining position was all but ideal. Now if ever the automobile companies could be forced to recognize the A. F. of L. under pain of strike at the peak of production. (2) No less firmly braced were the heads of the automobile industry against allowing their business, whatever the cost, to fall into the clutches of organized labor. With them, too, it was now or never to stand and fight...
...things happened almost simultaneously at Little America one morning last week. The Administration Building's gasoline tank shot up in flames and Cameraman Joseph A. Pelter keeled over with a sharp pain in his side. "My surgical instruments!" cried Dr. Louis H. Potaka. "Under the tank...
...here in Boston that ether was first employed. The value of that anesthetic needs no comment; the horror of centuries of surgical misery is as great a testament of its worth as the pain it saves the patient today. Yet ether is by no means a perfect anesthetic. Its after effects are notorious, and it must be administered with extraordinary care. Nausea, even heart-failure, follow its use, and the awakening of the anesthetized strongly resembles the writhings of a drunk...
Evipana, as this new anesthetic is called, may open a new field in the prevention of pain. If we can judge by the report of the doctors of Mt. Sinai Hospital, the drug can be used under almost any circumstances, and, most especially, its effect on the heart is quite slight compared to chloroform and ether. Since quick injection in emergency cases is provided by the convenience of the hypodermic injection, it will doubtless become an essential part of the ambulance surgeon's equipment. From dentist to veterinary, this achievement will mean the opening...