Word: anesthesia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mother at Philadelphia's Lying-in Hospital last week. So did a pediatrician and four assistants. Some of the doctors around Mrs. Joseph Cirminello, an SEC secretary, were merely spectators. But many were needed, because Mrs. Cirminello was being delivered of quadruplets by Caesarean section under spinal anesthesia-a feat unique in medical history. The operation was done six weeks before the normal birth date because the doctors thought that waiting would endanger the lives both of the mother and her brood. The obstetrician in charge: Dr. John Calvin Ullery of Upper Darby...
...Barbara Mullen), a heartbroken feminist, fled from the contemptuous jails of England. One (Frederick Cooper), a consumptive workman, fled from the inhumanities of a Victorian factory. One (Frederick Valk), a Viennese physician who prediscovered anesthesia, fled from the bigotries of the clergy and of his own profession. All, as the moved journalist hears them out, rebuke themselves and him for despair against whatever odds. The despairing promethean, they assure him, takes nothing of value to his living grave; others-a Darwin, a Pasteur, a Marx, a Nightingale-persist and by slow stages liberate the reluctant world. By morning and story...
Continuous caudal anesthesia for childbirth (TIME, June 12, 1943) is potentially so hazardous that only an expert in a hospital can use it, and he must be on hand every minute to see that all goes well. This has prevented its use by: 1) busy doctors, 2) country doctors, 3) doctors who have not had a chance to study the method. Last week University of California doctors were well beyond their 100th delivery with a new, simpler kind of childbirth anesthesia which may turn out to be readily usable by any obstetrician. It is billed as "safe, simple and without...
...they can tell that a mule is in pain only by the expression in his eyes or by a quivering muscle. Only the "shellshocked" animals make any noise. A wounded animal first gets an antitetanus shot in the neck. Then metal fragments are removed and wounds dressed under anesthesia on a ten-by-ten-foot operating table covered with rubber. As in the U.S., there is a feed shortage. Instead of hay, the animal patients get. along on a straw substitute. About 60% of the patients go back into action in two weeks. The rest go to a more luxurious...
...company had distributed some 22,000 packages of improperly distilled water and 73,000 ampoules of dextrose solution (which is made with distilled water) containing pyrogens (fever-producing substances), "undissolved particles" and mold. Patients showed "unusual symptoms" when a Boston hospital used some of the dextrose in spinal anesthesia. According to an Assistant U.S. Attorney one patient died, but the doctors think he would have died anyway. Winthrop called in all the offending packages long...