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...lines as if preparing for an examination, Cassio and Roderigo were fully adequate. The production was was both rich and smooth, with settings at once satisfying and suggestive, and with no long waits between them such as often dull the interest of Shakespeare. Mr. Leiber offers the most painless method of reviewing the important play...

Author: By A. T. R. j., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/27/1927 | See Source »

...healthier a person is the easier he is to electrocute. Sick convicts require 2,700 volts for painless death; normal ones need only 2,000 volts. Engineer Ogle would have physicians look more carefully into the electrical condition of human organs in the diagnosis of disease. This, he believes, is a comparatively unexplored field of medicine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Able Ogle | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

...Able Engineer Ogle and others have made painless death a reality at Sing Sing. Once it took three shocks to kill; now only one is necessary. Properly applied electric current reaches the brain in 1/240 of a second; thus, the loss of consciousness is almost instantaneous. Compared to this, the prick of a needle at the base of the skull (taking 1/10 of a second to reach the brain) is sluggish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Able Ogle | 2/7/1927 | See Source »

...Painless Childbirth. Three hypodermic injections of epsom salts, one with a trace of morphine, prevented pains of 96% of 3,000 mothers delivered the past three years. The procedure may be used by any competent physician anywhere, under any conditions; is much preferable to the nitrous oxide or the "twilight sleep" technique. (Reported by Dr. James T. Gwathmey of Lying-in Hospital, Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Congresses | 4/12/1926 | See Source »

Sailor John certainly had ainhum. If the fibrous rings about his small toes were to continue in growth, as they surely would without surgical intervention, they would eat around through the muscles, tendons, nerves, bones and finally the atrophying blood vessels. Then those toes would fall off, painlessly. The disease is caused by no known germ or organism, yet probably by some jungle parasite. Slaves just imported into the U. S. used to have it once in a while. After their little toes decayed and dropped off, other toes were liable to become infected. One case is on medical record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Ainhum | 2/22/1926 | See Source »

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