Word: painfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Most addicts start using drugs in their late twenties, but addiction may occur at any age. Physicians frankly admit they are stumped by the cause of addiction, generally attribute it to a desire for excitement. Relatively few persons have become addicted through use of medicines for relief of pain...
...looks like Charles the Fifth, conducts the siege of the Alcázar, treats his enemies chivalrously, is executed when Toledo is captured. On a ridge outside the city the prisoners are shot, three at a time, somersaulting backwards into a ditch, Hernández reflecting in a pain-filled, embarrassed silence that they line up stiffly like people having their pictures taken...
...most delicate and stubborn surgical problems is the relief of pain in childbirth. Injection of synthetic, cocaine-like drugs, such as novocain and procaine, into the canal of the spinal cord is objectionable because such injections act on the cord and brain, interfere with the heart. Anesthetics such as ether and nitrous oxide (laughing gas) are harmful because they cause a deficiency of oxygen in the blood streams of mother and child...
...solution bathed the nerve trunks of organs involved in childbirth and effectively killed pain. The efficiency of motor nerves which aid in propelling a child out of the birth canal was not impaired. Chief merit of the new drugs is that each has a different length of action, and doctors predicting the length of labor can inject a drug with sufficiently lasting effects...
...that their vision was greatly improved. Professor Alvaro has not yet been successful in isolating the specific eye principle, has used only small injections of diluted complete venom, or mixtures of various types of venom. Injection of venom under the conjunctiva (delicate membrane covering the eyeball) has relieved severe pain arising from inflammation of the cornea, stopped bleeding from ocular diseases...