Word: anesthesia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tissue. . . . One-handed knots and rapidly thrown knots are unreliable. Each knot is of vital importance in the success of an operation." Fresh wounds should be sealed with silver-foil, for "silver has bactericidal qualities." A surgeon must know the benefits and dangers of every type of anesthetic; local anesthesia, for example, should not be used in malignant tumor operations, or in the presence of infection, for the anesthetic needle may pick up cancerous cells and start the "seeding" of tumors, or it may injure healthy cells and make them prey for dangerous bacteria already lodging in the body...
...Anesthesia and Antiseptics. Small amounts of morphine are used to dull pain. For deep anesthesia, gas and oxygen are considered safest. Oxygen tanks should be stored underground, where they cannot be exploded by bombs or shellfire...
...emeritus of gynecology to devote his time to Baltimore's Howard A. Kelly Hospital, which he had founded in 1892. During his 30 years at Hopkins he achieved fame as the inventor of various modern kidney, uterine and ovarian operations, as a pioneer in the use of cocaine anesthesia, as the inventor of the Kelly cystoscope and proctoscope, instruments for examining the bladder and rectum...
Cordingley was playing defensive wing-back at the time, and the accident occurred when he was struck simultaneously by two blockers. He was carried into the field house where Augustus Thorndike the attendant physician, set the leg with the aid of Dr. Frank Marvin who administered the anesthesia. Cordingley last year was a member of the Varsity basketball squad and the Varsity golf team. It is expected that he will not be out for basketball until after Christmas vacation...
...conclusion Dr. Pickrell offered the following warning to doctors and drinkers: "If bacteria are aspirated (inhaled) into the lungs during alcoholic intoxication or ... anesthesia, they will grow uninhibited by the defenses of the body during the entire period of unconsciousness . . . regardless of the amount of immunity possessed by the body. . . . They may easily become so numerous that inflammation developing after recovery of consciousness may be unable to overcome them." Whether the popular habit of killing a cold with whiskey contributes to the pneumonia toll he did not say. Nor did he imply that the phrase "alcoholic intoxication" meant anything less...