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...that in 1800 ether was first used by partyers as a fun diversion? Sniffing the gas led to hilarious and raucous laughter as people watched each other become more and more intoxicated and silly. Several doctors independently realized the value ether would have to anesthetize surgery patients. Of those who claimed rights to the "discovery," none had a happy ending. One had a seizure and died defending his rights. Another spent his life in an asylum because he had been denied acclaim. A third became addicted to chloroform and, in a New York City jail, he soaked a cloth in the drug, severed an artery and bled to death.
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| 7239988 | Apparatus and method for efficient representation of periodic and nearly periodic signals for analysis Apparatus for graphically representing a substantially periodic signal having substantially periodic segments, comprising a graphic transformer for converting the periodic segments into encodings respectively for arrangement in a first dimension and successively ind... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7151957 | Method and device for analyzing a periodic or semi-periodic signal A device for reducing noise in signals having successive substantially repetitive portions, comprising: an iterative averager operative to superimpose and average said substantially repetitive portions to produce a running average thereof, and an iteration ender com... | 12/19/2006 |
