Word: painless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Monti, Tito Gobbi; Rome Opera chorus and orchestra conducted by Gabriele Santini; Victor, 2 LPs). A 123-year-old take-off on the Tristan legend involving a desirable and wealthy wench, her two swains, a phony love potion and a welter of sunny tunes (including Una furtiva lagrima). A painless score, handsomely performed...
...Russia faces a severe shortage of grain. Drought and storms had heavily cut har vests in the Ukraine and the Volga region. The Kremlin's long-range remedy - Party Secretary Khrushchev's grandiose scheme for plowing up virgin land in Siberia and Kazakhstan - had not proved as painless as had been promised. Though an area greater than the total cultivated land of Great Britain had been plowed up, it had been done only by snatching technicians and tractors from West Russian farms, and when those ran out, by drafting men and women from their villages and factories. Then...
...bring about this painless state, or analgesia, which involves the entire body,* Dr. Artusio puts patients through all the usual sequence of anesthetics (barbiturates, thiopental sodium, nitrous oxide, oxygen, ether) until they lose consciousness. Then he gives more oxygen and less ether, so that they edge back across the threshold into consciousness, and holds them at this level. Edna's case, filmed in color by E. R. Squibb & Sons for hospitals and professional groups, was typical of 120 mitral valve repairs on which Drs. Glenn and Artusio have worked-enough, they feel, to establish that ether analgesia is just...
...Manhattan last week, Columbia University's School of Dental and Oral Surgery announced a new, virtually painless dental drill, the Cavitron. Designed to replace the nerve-wracking metal burr, the pencil-shaped Cavitron is quieter and quicker...
Columbia's dentists consider the new tool a major advance toward completely painless dentistry, but before the Cavitron goes into general production, some 200 will go to other clinics and dental schools for further testing. The average dentist will not be able to get one for many months. Estimated cost per Cavitron...