"Anesthesia" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... thanks," he answered, "although that Kaffir tried to brain the nurse-man when he was coming out of the anesthetic. But are you ...
— Finished • H. Rider Haggard
... Nap fiercely. "That's only the anesthetic when things get unbearable. You use duty in the same way. But what we both want, what we both hanker for, starve for, is just life! Who cares if there is pain with it? I don't, nor do you. And yet we keep on stunting and stultifying ourselves with these old-fashioned ...
— The Knave of Diamonds • Ethel May Dell
... POULTICE (HYGROSCOPINE) For Pains, Wounds, Swellings, Burns, Bites, Stings, and all INFLAMMATIONS Meys Poultice is in air-tight glass jars. 12 ozs. net; 20 ozs. net; 2 lbs. net; and 5 lbs. Meys Poultice is a safe, clean, soothing dressing—is antiseptic and anesthetic; does not soil or stain. It dissolves in water; lasts 24 hours as a dressing. Meys Poultice is indorsed by physicians everywhere. It has no equal as a treatment in Pneumonia, Pleurisy, Bronchitis, ...
— The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing - A Manual of Ready Reference • Joseph Triemens
... peered earlier in the night. Slavatsky took his seat at the table, his malignant black eyes boring into the Doctor. Carson and Willis sat on the edge of the operating table, evidently still partially under the effects of the anesthetic that had ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 • Various
... known patients to collapse completely at the sight of surgical instruments in the operating room. I have heard them say that they could actually feel the cutting of the knife long before they took the anesthetic. ...
— Pushing to the Front • Orison Swett Marden
... and ten and twelve and twenty years; and I know, when it comes to merely not taking any, I am a piker as yet. However, I have well-grounded hopes. The fact is, a drink could not be put into me except with the aid of an anesthetic and a funnel; but, for all that, ...
— The Old Game - A Retrospect after Three and a Half Years on the Water-wagon • Samuel G. Blythe
... that there is pain in childbirth, or, if through modern medical science, the pain is eliminated, is beside the point. Childbirth consists of a new baby coming into the world. The mother might even die, but childbirth has taken place. She might feel no pain whatsoever, under anesthetic, but childbirth has ...
— Frigid Fracas • Dallas McCord Reynolds |
