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If the practitioner is somewhat proficient as a surgeon, and has at his command facilities for doing surgery, the second method is preferable in many cases. By using a local anesthetic on the plantar nerves and confining the subject on an operating table, restraint should be perfect.
On the other hand, if a woman marries for money, or a home, or position, or place, or power, or a "meal-ticket" for anything but love, she will doubtless be anesthetic and stay so. She deserves to! She sells herself for a mess of pottage, whoever she is. She may be a "good woman," but she can never be a good wife.
It was the first time in his life that he had handled, much less possessed, a "thick un." The expert surgeon, operating for blindness on the membranes of the eye, is denied the bulwark of an anesthetic. Such a one will tell you that the moment of success is the moment most pregnant with disaster.
If he could manage to rid himself of such suspicions, there would be less public gabble about anesthetic wives, and fewer books written by quacks with sure cures for them, and a good deal less cold-mutton formalism and boredom at the domestic hearth.
Truly, if Time is the healer, Work is the anesthetic. In the turmoil of the crowded streets and polling-booths, I found myself almost as enthusiastic and whole-hearted as if no little girl of mine were fighting for life in a darkened room not many streets away.
And Lydia said she hadn't heard the bell, because she had dropped asleep in her room in the basement dopey from the local anesthetic, you know," she explained to Dundee. "I see," Dundee acknowledged, and underlined heavily another note in his scrawled shorthand.
"Yesterday I was an anesthetic," Poltneck wailed. "To-day I am to be a stimulant." Kohlvihr now came forward. "It is time," he said. "General," said Dabnitz, "we have to deal with an unusual peasant, I am afraid." "It would not do for me to encroach upon the work of professionals," the singer explained in dilemma. "You see he is humorous," Dabnitz observed.
That the possessed were hysterical is abundantly shown by the descriptions their historians give of the character of their convulsions, contortions, etc., and by the references to the anesthetic, or non-sensitive, spots on their bodies.
Personally I didn't care what was done with me. In a few minutes, four orderlies who looked like undertakers dressed in white, brought a stretcher to my bed and placing me on it carried me out of the ward, across a courtyard to the operating room or "pictures," as Tommy calls it. I don't remember having the anesthetic applied. When I came to I was again lying in a bed in Munsey Ward.
I know now how the surgeon must feel at the crucial moment of his accomplished operation. Will the patient live or die? The road-worker drew a long breath as he came out from under the anesthetic. "I guess, partner," said he, "you're trying to put a stone or two in my ruts!" I had him! "Exactly," I exclaimed eagerly. We both paused.
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