etherised

Like a patient etherised upon a table on 28 Jul 2009 at 7: 45 am Peaches

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The patient lies etherised upon the table, the victim of multiple wounds: an aging core readership; competition with other mediums; little audience crossover between mediums; a declining interest in science; the extant (and perhaps expanding) public perception that all SF is little more than escapist juvenile fluff (to paraphrase one independent bookstore employee) devoid of any other intrinsic value.

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The intensity of this account lays bare Mahler's symphony as if in an X-ray, like TS Eliot's "patient etherised upon a table".

Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra/Roger Norrington: Mahler, Symphony No 9 2010

Dr. Massie, please come forward with a generously etherised wad of cotton wool to dispel such concerns!

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Seriously, I'm pinned to the world by my right breast pinned, but not wriggling on a wall, not sprawling, certainly, and alas, not etherised.

Liveblogging my Mammogram Bardiac 2009

Seriously, I'm pinned to the world by my right breast pinned, but not wriggling on a wall, not sprawling, certainly, and alas, not etherised.

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But, in all probability, the entire proportion of recoveries in etherised cases will be found to be increased, through the injurious effects being averted which are produced by fear and suffering.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 Various

In minor cases of surgery, in which union of the wound _by adhesion_ is necessary to the success of the operation -- in harelip, for instance -- an exacter comparison is, perhaps, requisite than has yet been made of the relative results obtained on etherised and non-etherised patients.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 Various

In the preparation of this wool, an etherised oil is formed, of an agreeable odour, and green in colour, but which an exposure to the light changes to a yellowish-orange tint, and which resumes its original colour on the light being again excluded.

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 458 Volume 18, New Series, October 9, 1852 Various 1841

When an increase in the efficacy of the baths is desired, a quantity of extract obtained by the distillation of the etherised oil above mentioned, which also contains formic acid, is poured into the liquor.

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 458 Volume 18, New Series, October 9, 1852 Various 1841