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...pain-contorted Brooklyn man was a patient of Anesthetist Marius Bohdan Greene. Taking him into an aseptic operating room, he gently rolled the patient on his side, rolled up the bed shirt, injected into the spine a mixture of alcohol chloroform, acetone and cobra venom. The tortured man unbent. Faint color flooded his face. He opened his eyes...
...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...
This man amassed no venom as he grew...
...married Dzjunka, the knowledge of her infidelity turned him into a Napoleon hater, a valued Russian spy; inspired him with the cunning strategy of tormenting his wife by keeping a close watch over her, repaying her rebuffs and infidelities with perfect gallantry (meanwhile sublimating his venom by torturing his serfs...
...mammal and suckles its young-from secreting pores, not teats. But as do birds, it lays eggs. Like fish and turtle, it feeds on water-life. Like the mole, it burrows under ground. Like the duck, it has a broad bill and webbed feet. Like some snakes, it carries venom (male only, in a spur on its hind leg). And it has a beaver-like tail which makes it seem double-ended. Its fur is coarse, runs in color from dark brown to silver grey. No woman would choose it for its beauty or usefu1ness...