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...Gizmos" [Dec. 3], you forgot to mention the use of the paper clip as a surgical tool. Heated in a Bunsen burner, it provides the ideal method of releasing the blood under a smashed fingernail-better than a dentist's drill, a sharp knife, etc. It is painless (the blood cools the clip as soon as it burns through) and fast...
Awake but Painless. With no degree but his M.D. from Bordeaux University, he belongs to neither the French Academy of Medicine or of Science; he has no university affiliation. "If I were on a faculty," he says, "I wouldn't have made any discoveries, because I would have spent all my time taking tests for higher academic rank...
...citizens of no other nation give so generously as Americans, but it I still hurts a little bit. Most painless way yet has been discovered by the Combined Arts of San Diego (COMBO), a group of resolute citizens dedicated to resuscitating the city's cultural activities...
...even more painless stratagem is to latch on to a mystery or thriller writer who is not yet widely known. Fleming and le Carré, of course, are old-gat. So are Britain's Len Deighton (The Ipcress File) and John Creasey (Death of an Assassin), whose books have been made into movies. Georges Simenon, the prolific French author whose Inspector Maigret has solved more than 60 book-length cases to date, has yet to win a mass following in the U.S., despite his fine ear for Gallic nuance and a geographer's eye for locale. One enterprising...
...surgeon inserts a thin cannula (tube) that kills offending tissue with liquid nitrogen's intense cold (- 196° C., or 321° below zero F.). Usually no tissue is actually removed, and the body's natural clean-up system removes the debris. Virtually bloodless and almost painless, cryosurgery can be done on patients who remain fully conscious or only lightly anesthetized. In some cases cryosurgery is used only to relieve symptoms, but in others it achieves actual cures. Among the areas in which it shows conspicuous promise...