Word: painfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Venom for Pain...
...break. The fibula is cut slantwise. Pins are inserted in each bone above and below the break and after the flesh heals around them, are connected by a turnbuckle which is screwed 1/20 to 1/25th of an inch each day until the leg is stretched. The patient feels no pain during the stretching. Three inches is the maximum stretch. The tendons are also snipped in a Z-pattern, pulled to the desired length at once, stitched tight. Blood vessels, nerves and smaller muscles adjust themselves naturally. Five to eight months after the operation, the pins are removed and the patient...
...cotton he pleases, store it in his barn, light a cigar with his AAA pasteboard and go unpunished. Mr. Wallace simply told cotton buyers, who are not a big or politically potent class, that upon them rests the burden of properly identifying the cotton. Furthermore, buyers, on pain of $500 fine, must strictly observe an AAA color line...
...venom (Dr. Greene also uses extracts from bees, lizards and salamanders) in combination with the other ingredients of his spinal injection interrupts the nervous circulation of pain. This it does by paralyzing efferent motor nerves (which carry commands from the brain) just where they branch from the spinal cord. For lack of orders from the brain to do something, the injured part relaxes, does nothing. This gives injured local nerves opportunity to heal and to help the injured muscles which they serve, to heal also. Dr. Greene finds his anodyne an aid in the treatment of back injuries, sciatica...
...steaming bamboo hut near Manila, a lean, bronzed young U. S. chemist sat with a small native child on his knees. The child lay rigid, its face, arms and legs swollen, the rest of its body wasted. The child whimpered at the burning pain in his heart and intestines. He was dying of beriberi, ancient Oriental disease. The chemist thrust a few drops of an extract from rice hulls between the child's lips. Almost instantly the boy revived, and young Chemist Robert Runnels Williams, India-born son of U. S. missionaries, knew that he had saved a life...