Word: painful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...twirls the knobs on the anesthesia machine to give a mixture of nitrous oxide and oxygen. The patient's bed is brought to the operating room, so that he can continue to receive oxygen and intravenous infusions while on his way to the recovery room. To relieve pain after he regains consciousness, he gets meperidine. (But not enough to relieve all pain because, says Dr. Sadove. that would also eliminate the cough reflex, "the watchdog and clean-up man of the chest.") Oxygen is usually discontinued within a couple of days. With that, the anesthesiologist's task...
Bacon approaches his subjects in the grand manner; he isolates each one, gives it lots of room in a big canvas and paints it with virtuoso brilliance and economy. Perhaps his chief distinction is that he captures in painting the quality of disembodied urgency, of pain writhing in a void, that is peculiar to many news pictures of violent death (for source material, Bacon collects old newspaper photographs, preferably of crimes and accidents). Bacon has a trick of veiling faces with a wispy scumble of paint that creates an illusion of motion, like a photograph in which the subject moved...
...window to wave goodbye to the crowd. El Galleguito angrily grabbed the window and pulled it down, barely missing the President's hastily retracted head. As the train pulled away, astonished spectators could see on the President's face that off-balance look of mingled pain, sorrow, anger and resignation that now and then crosses the countenance of every father...
...white frame building in Ashland (pop. 8,000), Ore. one afternoon last week, some 140 people packed into seats in a low-ceilinged, fetid room 30 ft. square. Many wore bandages or held to canes and crutches. Some bore the grimace of chronic pain. But all stood up when a thin, wrinkled woman in white nurse's uniform and fancy-print apron with prominent pockets came...
...London, the pharmaceutical house, British Schering, Ltd., announced a new drug for taking the terror out of visits to the dentist. Sedative capsules of Oblivon, a trade name for methylpentynol, taken beforehand, "removed apprehension" but not the pain in 189 out of 200 test patients. British Schering is now making lists of other standard anxiety situations in which, they hope, Oblivon may obliviate...