Word: painful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brains with a fine electrode (usual current: 1-5 volts for 1/500 to 1/200 second). Though fully conscious (only local anesthesia is used for opening the skull), the patient feels no shock, does not even know when the current is applied, for the brain tissue itself is insensitive to pain...
...Victims of far-advanced cancer enjoyed a marked "mood elevation," complained less of pain (thus needed fewer narcotics), gained weight, though iproniazid had no effect on their disease...
...Startling and still unexplained success has been achieved with iproniazid against angina pectoris, the recurrent pain that afflicts many victims of coronary artery disease. Mexico City's Dr. Teodoro Cesarman was most enthusiastic, reported complete relief after one to three weeks' treatment in 62 cases. One man, incapacitated for eight years, who had taken up to 20 tablets of nitroglycerin a day, lost his pain, began climbing stairs, and walked a mile without distress. U.S. and Swiss specialists reported good though less dramatic results...
...that yowling about Laika gave me a pain. Do these dog lovers know that every day in our own grand and glorious country thousands of poor, worn-out old horses are driven up ramps to the slaughter-to provide food for their lousy pets...
Financier Leopold D. Silberstein, who won only an active ulcer in his attempt to take over Fairbanks, Morse & Co. last May, bad reason for more pain. To help pay off the huge debts contracted in the proxy fight, his Penn-Texas Corp. last week was forced to 1) omit a quarterly dividend on preferred stock, 2) sell a major subsidiary, Industrial Brownhoist Corp. of Bay City, Mich., one of the first companies in the Silberstein empire. An undisclosed buyer picked it up for $3,000,000 in cash-half of what Penn-Texas paid for it in 1954. Other subsidiaries...