Word: anesthesia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Either operation exposes the gland so that the surgeon can enucleate it with his fingernail or blunt scissors. The operation requires the best of skill and asepsis. Infection can cause more trouble than hypertrophy. Because the patients are usually elderly men whom ether anesthesia would make susceptible to pneumonia, surgeons prefer local anesthesia. The patient can be propped up in bed the day after his operation, sit in a chair after a week, be well in three weeks. Dangers against which the convalescent must guard include pneumonia, hiccoughing, gas on the stomach. Epsom salt is poison to the convalescent...
Natural gas is an adaptable agent. It may be used in anesthesia or in the cure of sleeping-sickness, in fueling or fighting fires, in blowing up cities or in dyeing cloth. Its first and perhaps most important use, however, is in supplying the pressure that forces crude oil from the bowels of the earth to the surface. When local gas pressure is exhausted, further working of an oil well is almost prohibitively expensive...
...going President Malcolm La- Salle Harris, 67, of Chicago, anesthesia authority, personified a nervous expectation which originated in his city and ran through the convention?that Dr. Louis Ernst Schmidt of Chicago would demand of the Association his reinstatement in the Chicago Medical Society. That society last spring ousted Dr. Schmidt, famed genitourinary surgeon, because he was a urologist as well as chief of staff of the Illinois Social Hygiene League which treats charity patients of Chicago's Public Health Institute, a clinic operating not for profit on the treatment of venereal diseases (TIME, April 22). To induce venereals...
...Cleveland Clinic was founded in 1921 by four physicians who pledged them selves to give one-fourth of their incomes to its support. Most noted of the founders is Dr. George W. Crile, inventor of "nerve-block" anesthesia and improvements in blood transfusion technique, an expert in thyroid gland and respiratory system operations. At the time of the explosion he was performing an operation in the Clinic hospital in a nearby building. He was not told of the accident until the operation was completed. Still in his white gown and operating cap he rushed to the scene...
Surgery. Spinal anesthesia by new chemicals. Anesthesia per rectum by ether with olive oil, particularly useful where exophthalmic goitre makes a patient nervous. Human liver found to exercise a profound protective influence against harmful products entering the blood by way of the intestinal canal. Recognition that brain tumors may develop suddenly and rapidly, that the electric cautery knife makes possible more complete removal of brain and spinal cord tumors...