Word: painful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Impacted wax in the ears can cause pain, giddiness and impaired hearing, is especially common during summer swimming. Also nonprescription, Cerumenex can be squirted into the ears at home by syringe. It loosens and dissolves the wax so that it is easily and painlessly flushed...
...ghastly in its scale, one must remember that each person can only suffer so much; and I do not know that the men and women affected would suffer more than those do who day by day are involved in some appalling disaster. There is no aggregate measure of pain. Anyhow, policy must not be based simply on fear of pain...
...also prove effective against many urinary-tract infections (common, stubborn and dangerous), and against tuberculosis-though precise assay of its usefulness against TB will take years. Also offered was evidence that kanamycin (released for general prescription last month, trade-named Kantrex by Bristol Laboratories) may prolong life and ease pain in cirrhosis of the liver...
...week. The result, Dr. Marmer told the A.M.A. convention, was to permit the use of chemical anesthesia so light that one teen-age patient could be awakened while the lower right chamber of her heart was open. After the drastic surgery, she made a good recovery with only slight pain...
With Open Eyes. Marmer began his experiments by hypnotizing a 13-year-old boy, found that he withstood the rigors of a heart operation (to enlarge a pulmonary valve narrowed at its base), and recovered without complaining of pain. Then Marmer moved on to a more difficult case: a girl of 14 who had the disadvantage of being deaf, so that a hearing aid had to be used to communicate with her. After several trial runs, he hypnotized her on the morning of the operation, then gave her light chemical anesthesia. When her heart and lungs had been bypassed, their...