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  • No anesthetics, even.†   (source)
  • … It is far better for her to make her own adjustment before the operation than to awaken from the anesthetic and find it a fait accompli.†   (source)
  • They give the cat an anesthetic, of course.†   (source)
  • He injects a local anesthetic.†   (source)
  • He had done his duty and now he could use a little anesthetic — something stronger than Excedrin.†   (source)
  • A druggist named Erickson recalled how Holmes used to come into his store to buy chloroform, a potent but unpredictable anesthetic in use since the Civil War.†   (source)
  • So, Kvothe, do you still wish to forgo an anesthetic?†   (source)
  • Another small section housed the anesthetics.†   (source)
  • Don't they have any anesthetic?†   (source)
  • Circumcision is a trial of bravery and stoicism; no anesthetic is used; a man must suffer in silence.†   (source)
  • At five o'clock on a gray, rainy evening on the edge of winter, as commuters streamed home from Washington, he and another Hazleton veterinarian injected all the monkeys in Room F with lethal doses of anesthetic.†   (source)
  • Anesthetic?†   (source)
  • The nurses wheeled her into the operating room and scrubbed her belly, and a nurse administered a spinal anesthetic.†   (source)
  • The next day Adam checked in at the hospital and insisted on a local anesthetic so he could watch the procedure.†   (source)
  • Then a nurse poked some acupuncture needles into my body—the Chinese anesthetic.†   (source)
  • It is rather like going under a modern anesthetic on an operating table.†   (source)
  • Where would he get anesthetic supplies?†   (source)
  • Not meant to inflict pain—probably done under anesthetic, even.†   (source)
  • He's still under the anesthetic.†   (source)
  • I use Adrenalin with my local anesthetic to keep the bleeding minimal.†   (source)
  • I held up my hand, ready to spit the gum out, when the most remarkable thing happened: my mouth, my throat, they stopped aching, as if there were an anesthetic in the gum, as if I were no longer an AIDS patient but an ordinary man who'd picked up this treat at the gas station counter after filling his tank in preparation for driving far, far away.†   (source)
  • Do you want any local anesthetic?†   (source)
  • Severe invasive procedures were not called for; local anesthetics were sufficient for the cleansing and suturing, followed by generous injections of antibiotics.†   (source)
  • The agony she endured in that day before anesthetics is unimaginable.†   (source)
  • After that, as his assistants supervised the anesthetic, air supply and a long-overdue blood transfusion, Logan got to work with needle and thread.†   (source)
  • I'm going to give you a local anesthetic and then perform a simple D&C, or what you'd call a scraping to clean out the uterus.†   (source)
  • They introduced an anesthetic into Billy's atmosphere now, put him to sleep.†   (source)
  • He wears a corset, sleeps on an extra-firm mattress, and receives regular injections of the anesthetic procaine to ease his suffering.†   (source)
  • He had to stand on guard against his own feeling-as if some part of him had become a stranger that had to be kept numb, and his will had to be its constant, watchful anesthetic.†   (source)
  • They would not use anesthetics, just a swig from the mountain jug.†   (source)
  • That we are again out of certain anesthetics and painkillers, which I believe you are offering to the colonel too frequently, perhaps even with the intent to incapacitate him.†   (source)
  • Over by the refreshment table, Mrs. Poole was smoking rapidly while Sally Jean told her that her house was anesthetically pleasing.†   (source)
  • What kind of idiot asks for less anesthetic?†   (source)
  • "Propofol is a short-duration anesthetic," lectured the woman pedantically.†   (source)
  • Whiskey was Dan Gunn's emergency anesthetic.†   (source)
  • Lions and such-like are easy-but trying to puncture a rhino from the air with an anesthetic dart is the devil of a job.†   (source)
  • When the last anesthetic bonds of mental fatigue fell away, there was strangeness about him.†   (source)
  • It was gaseous, unveined, unblotted by smoke, a cloud with the November flush of the sedge grass by day, sparkless and nerveless, not to be confused with a burning church, but like anesthetic made visible.†   (source)
  • Space was an anesthetic; seventy million miles of space numbed you, put memory to sleep, depopulated Earth, erased the past, and allowed these people here to go on with their work.†   (source)
  • With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence.   (source)
  • Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience...   (source)
  • I found that there were complications from the anesthetic used in the operation.†   (source)
  • "That's just a local anesthetic," explained Dr. Martinez.†   (source)
  • She was given a local anaesthetic and the wound was sewn up with three stitches.†   (source)
  • I explained that my supply of local anesthetic was very, very limited.†   (source)
  • The anesthetic was apparently losing its effectiveness.†   (source)
  • Seems like you all use some kind of anesthetic, but that's just a guess.†   (source)
  • Dr. Wei will now inject the area with a local anesthetic.†   (source)
  • Charlotte started filling syringes with ketamine, the anesthetic.†   (source)
  • After the sting of the local anesthetic, there was no pain in the procedure.†   (source)
  • An anesthetic.†   (source)
  • She had a break from the wards when a man coming round from an anesthetic was sick onto her lap and she had to find a clean apron.†   (source)
  • Two days after Christmas, Garrett was tied down, given a spinal anesthetic, and forced to watch as a Japanese corpsman sawed at his leg, then snapped it off.†   (source)
  • On her second night at the hospital, the nurse on duty fed Henrietta an early dinner so her stomach would be empty the next morning, when a doctor put her under anesthetic for her first cancer treatment.†   (source)
  • It was a mild anesthetic, a stimulant, and a vascular constrictor, which is why I hadn't bled like a stuck pig when they'd whipped me.†   (source)
  • I had two scruples of nahlrout numbing me, and I knew better than to mix anesthetics if I could avoid it.†   (source)
  • Exhaustion was his anesthetic.†   (source)
  • In most cases, there is no anesthetic.†   (source)
  • Natalie administered a local anesthetic, and when the drug had taken effect she went quickly to work.†   (source)
  • Annie was under general anesthetic and he watched these men, these total strangers, delving inside her, up to their elbows in gore, hauling it out and sloshing it in dollops into a corner.†   (source)
  • He said he could remove them in a procedure that could beperformed with a local anesthetic right in his office.†   (source)
  • When Tomas first positioned his scalpel on the skin of a man asleep under an anesthetic, then breached the skin with a decisive incision, and finally cut it open with a precise and even stroke (as if it were a piece of fabrica coat, a skirt, a curtain), he experienced a brief but intense feeling of blasphemy.†   (source)
  • Finally the monkey got itself jammed down in a crack behind a cage with its tail sticking out, and Sergeant Amen hit the tail with a massive dose of anesthetic.†   (source)
  • Watching the monkey carefully to make sure it didn't try to rush at him, he slid the pole syringe through the open door and gave the monkey an injection of anesthetic, and then pulled out the syringe, and slammed the door shut.†   (source)
  • Captain Haines held the mop handle against the monkey to immobilize it, and Jerry ran the pole into the cage and hit the monkey's thigh with a double dose of ketamine, a general anesthetic.†   (source)
  • Furthermore, only a few bottles of bourbon and Scotch remained, and the bourbon was strictly medicinal, Dan's anesthetic.†   (source)
  • That's my anesthetic," Dan said.†   (source)
  • What must it have been like before there were anaesthetics?†   (source)
  • The terror on the stairs had been brief--a bare three minutes in time--and terror had served as an anesthetic.†   (source)
  • Giving Miss Sasaki a local anaesthetic of procaine, Dr Sasaki made an incision in her leg on 23 October, to drain the infection, which still lingered on eleven weeks after the injury.†   (source)
  • He used a local anaesthetic called something or other "snow," which froze the tissue and avoided pain until the probe, the scalpel or the forceps got below the frozen portion.†   (source)
  • She'll be out from under the anesthetic soon, and you can see her."†   (source)
  • No, Carrie can give the anesthetic, I guess.†   (source)
  • He'll have a corking farm in ten years, but now——I operated his wife on a kitchen table, with my driver giving the anesthetic.†   (source)
  • Death's a better game than bridge—you have no partner to help you!" she said, when she was grotesquely stretched on a chair of torture and indignity; when before they would give her the anesthetic, her face was green with agony.†   (source)
  • With no general anesthetic, gentlemen.†   (source)
  • I served as assistant while he probed and cleansed the passages made by the bullets, and I saw the two men endure his crude surgery without anaesthetics and with no more to uphold them than a stiff tumbler of whisky.†   (source)
  • The total cost, he whispered, including the spinal anesthetic, would come to one thousand francs, since almost the entire rib cage was involved, six to eight ribs, and the question now was whether it could be seen as a promising investment.†   (source)
  • As a surgical patient, by means of a local anaesthetic, can look on with a clear consciousness while an operation is being performed upon him and yet feel nothing, I could repeat to myself some favourite lines, or watch my grandfather attempting to talk to Swann about the Duc d'Audriffet-Pasquier, without being able to kindle any emotion from one or amusement from the other.†   (source)
  • Think you could give the anesthetic?†   (source)
  • It was like taking an anaesthetic.   (source)
    unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use anesthetic.
  • The oxygen solution also contains an anaesthetic that deadens pain receptors.†   (source)
  • Some form of natural anaesthetic injected through channels in the beast's tusks.†   (source)
  • At least he didn't need to administer an anaesthetic.†   (source)
  • That's why they speak like they're undergoing surgery without anaesthetic.†   (source)
  • Surprise would be the only anaesthetic.†   (source)
  • I don't need anaesthetic.†   (source)
  • It said: I hereby give consent to the staff of The Johns Hopkins Hospital to perform any operative procedures and under any anaesthetic either local or general that they may deem necessary in the proper surgical care and treatment of: ------------------------------ Henrietta printed her name in the blank space.†   (source)
  • "Yes," she replied in her sweet, musical voice, "I always give them an anaesthetic so they won't feel pain.†   (source)
  • I've got to go to Dandenong; my partner's operating at the hospital and I'm giving the anaesthetic for him.†   (source)
  • Another doctor in a mask gave the anaesthetic.†   (source)
  • And in that little bottle is ethyl chloride, a very powerful instant anaesthetic.†   (source)
  • It was stifling, like a blanket, like an anaesthetic.†   (source)
  • Because people get very blabby under an anaesthetic.†   (source)
  • When a man wakes after a dangerous operation he puts a special value upon the first face he sees as the anaesthetic wears away.†   (source)
  • Carrying water pistols charged with a powerful anaesthetic, four others had pushed their way into the crowd and were methodically laying out, squirt by squirt, the more ferocious of the fighters.†   (source)
  • It was done, and when Dr. Sasaki came out of the anaesthetic he found that his entire left lung had been removed.†   (source)
  • I've got to give the anaesthetic.†   (source)
  • I must have talked in an odd way, as people do who are recovering from an anaesthetic.†   (source)
  • The return to reality was as painful as the return to consciousness after taking an anaesthetic.†   (source)
  • He felt himself coming round from the anaesthetic, beginning to breathe.†   (source)
  • I proposed an anaesthetic to her …. but she would not consent.†   (source)
  • The anaesthetic effect of custom being destroyed, I would begin to think and to feel very melancholy things.†   (source)
  • Watching Swann's face while he listened to the phrase, one would have said that he was inhaling an anaesthetic which allowed him to breathe more deeply.†   (source)
  • Despair was in its own way an anesthetic.†   (source)
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