"Anesthetic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... through the window and also that it was only lifted to its present position with an effort. If that suitcase could be persuaded to fall on its owner's head it was reasonable to suppose the result would be anesthetic. And in Barraclough's hand was a crooked stick. The association of ...
— Men of Affairs • Roland Pertwee
... seemed to carry a wordless hymn of peace and though they stood in shadow there was light enough for lovers' eyes. The driven restlessness that had made Conscience doubt her sanity was slowly yielding to a sense of repose, as the tautened anguish of a mangled body relaxes to the balm of an anesthetic. Slowly the slenderly curved and graciously proportioned modeling of her lithe figure quieted from spasmodic unrest and the wild racing measure of her heart-beat calmed. Then she turned up her face. Her eyes cleared and her lips tilted their ...
— The Tyranny of Weakness • Charles Neville Buck
... 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, Croup, Rheumatic Joints, Carbuncles, Old Ulcers, Infections, Pelvic Pains, Ovaritis, ...
— The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing - A Manual of Ready Reference • Joseph Triemens
... muskets of Las Casas are blow-pipes. Oviedo, lib. V., cap. II., gives a detailed description of the use of tobacco. He says that the Indians smoked by inserting these tubes in the nostrils and that after two or three inhalations they lost consciousness. He knew some Christians who used it as an anesthetic when in ...
— The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 • Various
... of the pretty fellow is often accounted for by amateur psychologists on the ground that women are anesthetic to beauty—that they lack the quick and delicate responsiveness of man. Nothing could be more absurd. Women, in point of fact, commonly have a far keener aesthetic sense than men. Beauty is more important to them; they give more thought to it; they crave more of it ...
— In Defense of Women • H. L. Mencken |
