Word: painlessly
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...anesthesia whatsoever. Still vexed, President Winter cried last week: "It is cruel for expectations to be aroused, only to be shattered because they are based on a misunderstanding. . . . There is a lesson for the general public, the Press and the profession in the excitement caused by the announcement of painless dentistry, followed later by disillusionment...
...Detroit housewife appeared with a black eye. One mother bounced 880 miles from Columbus on a motorcycle. Houston women, like all good Texans of 1936, boosted their State's Centennial by wearing cowboy hats. From San Francisco arrived a team calling itself the Dr. Painless Parkers,* arrayed in jockey caps, white satin blouses, black satin pants. When these and some 1,500 other women reached Omaha three weeks ago for the 19th annual tournament of the Women's International Bowling Congress Inc., the oldest competitor, Omaha's own 67-year-old Mrs. Nevada Helen Robertson Tillson, opened...
...What hundreds of researchers had worked toward since dentistry began, what millions of dentists and their patients had ardently desired, Dr. Hartman had achieved. After 20 years of experiment he had destroyed the threat of the world's most dreaded torture instrument, the dentist's drill, made painless dentistry at last a fact...
...TIME, Nov. 18). Last week the storm of controversy and comment blown up by the Mail's story roared on in the world Press. In England famed William Ralph Inge, morose one-time dean of St. Paul's Cathedral, signed his name to an opinion that euthanasia (painless death) administered to incurables is "not contrary to Christian principles." This was also signed by three other churchmen including .St. Paul's present dean, Very Rev. Walter Robert Matthews...
...average doctor frequently faces the problem, that when it is a matter between him and his patient he may generally decide it in his own way without interference. The Rockefeller Institute's famed Nobel Prizeman Alexis Carrel declared that sentimental prejudice should not obstruct the quiet and painless disposition of incurables, criminals, hopeless lunatics...