Word: painlessness
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...Funk-Brentano of Paris is credited with the discovery of new methods of "twilight sleep" (painless childbirth) differing from the scopolanium method now widely in use. They consist of injections of extract from the pituitary gland (a small oval body attached to the brain near the optic nerve) combined with progressive doses of chloroform. The woman retains a degree of consciousness and speech, but is not aware of pain. Eight hundred deliveries have been made by these methods at the Boucicault Hospital...
...sense of irony. With all its advancement, surgery has had to turn for this lesson to the pariahs of the profession, witch-doctors, fakirs, and miracle-workers of semi-civilized races. The exhibitions of professional tricksters, who astonish their audiences by self-inflicted torture, are often made possible and painless by this simple process of deep breathing. A French doctor, observing some of these semi-savage rites in Africa, drew his own conclusion, and the test of actual experiment was a satisfactory proof...
...must not be swallowed whole. The French discoverer of "self-anaesthesia" claims only that it will be useful for minor operations, such as extracting teeth, when the cause of pain is only momentary, and when the patient's heart is sound. Even at that, it may be widely useful; "Painless Dentistry", the promise of zealous advertisers, can become an everyday reality; and the ordeal of removing splinters and cinders will be only a matter of a few deep breaths...
Congress, our national dentist, at last seems to have discovered a method of painless extraction of the bonus. The intricate plan for the issuing of certificates of indebtedness to veterans apparently was conceived at one of those moments, suggested by Lincoln, when "you can fool all of the people"; for the lightness of the protest against the proposal shows that exceedingly slight popular antagonism has been aroused...
...appreciation and understanding of music, by merely listening to it, is one of the means of spiritual cultivation; a method which is easy to adopt and almost painless and which guarantees to everyone something interesting to think about...