Word: anestheticized
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Immediate first aid for snake bite still consists of applying a tourniquet between the wound and the heart-slack enough, says Dr. Snyder, for a finger to pass between the bandage and the limb. Then a dash to the hospital, where antivenom is given after the surgery. If a hunter...
After five hours' sleep, the President was wheeled into surgery. The operation proceeded smoothly (see following story) and at 7:20 a.m. Moyers was able to phone a reassuring report to Vice President Hubert Humphrey at the Harbour Square Apartments in southwest Washington. (By agreement with Johnson, Humphrey was...
In the operating room, nurses pasted electrodes to the President's chest, so that a continuous electrocardiogram could be taken and shown on a TV-type screen. Dr. Didier worked a thin plastic tube through the President's throat and down his windpipe to deliver the anesthetic. Anesthetics...
Light & Knife. The polyp (from the Greek polypodos, many-footed) near the President's vocal cord is a soft growth that looks something like a miniature octopus. Polyps are common in many parts of the body; misuse of the vocal cords seems to encourage their development in the larynx...
After juggling these philosophical nuggets, Director Frankenheimer almost saves the picture by the straightforward expedient of a human sacrifice. He plunges with almost palpable relief into the surreal terrors of organization headquarters and carefully builds toward the film's screaming-meemie climax, sparing nothing but an anesthetic. Seconds has...