"Anesthesia" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... they were merely sleepers. German troops in thousands had dropped in their tracks. It was scarcely sleep, but something deeper, a stupor of exhaustion so utter, both mental and physical, that it was like the effect of anesthesia. They lay in every imaginable position, and they stretched away through the ...
— The Forest of Swords - A Story of Paris and the Marne • Joseph A. Altsheler
... suddenly ill. He forgot the cold, and was conscious of a fear which acted like a temporary anesthesia. For a few seconds he stood staring, until the match which he held burned out and scorched the flesh of his fingers. His jaw dropped, his eyes widened. He opened his lips and tried to speak, but closed them again without having uttered a sound save a choking ...
— Midnight • Octavus Roy Cohen
... causation by emotion," but the authors have not extricated this factor from the role played by induction either of idea or its secondary emotion. In such a fundamental matter as anaesthesia for instance, they say: "In our opinion there exist three classes of hysterical anesthesia. In the first series of facts one may place the cases due to simulation. In the second group of cases we shall range the patients in whom the disturbances of sensibility are directly due to suggestion. Finally there remains a third class of patients in whom ...
— The Journal of Abnormal Psychology - Volume 10
... soap-box came tumbling away, and the victim spun in the air on nothing, spinning round, and round, and round—slower and slower and slower—then back the other way round faster and faster. They say hanging is a merciful death—that the pressure of rope on two arteries produces anesthesia, but few are reported to have come back to tell of the experience. At any rate, as is not the case with shooting, it is easy to know when ...
— The Ivory Trail • Talbot Mundy
... quite serene about the matter, altho' I believe my heart is so bad that they fear giving ether and will keep me conscious if they can, applying only a local anesthetic. ...
— The Letters of Franklin K. Lane • Franklin K. Lane
... women; Wooing-house; Decorations; Anesthetic; Object of tattooing; Filthy; Origin of the Maoris; ...
— Primitive Love and Love-Stories • Henry Theophilus Finck |
