It Was A Saturday Afternoon, And I Was Sitting In The Living Room Recliner Watch

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Term Paper Title	It Was A Saturday Afternoon, And I Was Sitting In The Living Room Recliner Watch
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     It was a Saturday afternoon, and I was sitting in the living room recliner watching my normal morning cartoons while eating my bowl of Lucky Charms.  All of a sudden, a newsflash appeared on my screen.  A newscaster appeared and stated in a serious voice,
     "We interrupt this program for an important announcement.  It has      been discovered that a large meteor is traveling at a fast pace towards      the Earth and has been calculated to hit the Earth at approximately      12:00pm, Tuesday.  We urge everyone to move in a calm      manner to a      storm shelter or any other form of security."
The Lucky Charms I had been chewing fall out of my mouth while the TV converts from the fear-inducing newscaster to Scooby Doo.  I jump up in fear, and then embarrassingly realize that I had been dreaming.  I sit down and wonder to myself, "What if that had really happened? What would I take with me?" In my opinion, medicine and electricity would be the most beneficial because of the advances and demands for the two ingenious discoveries.
     One hundred fifty years ago, in the operating theater on the top floor of the MGH's Bulfinch Building, one of the greatest moments in medicine occurred. On Oct. 16, 1846, William T.G. Morton, a Boston dentist, demonstrated the use of ether during surgery, ending the indescribable pain that had been associated with the surgeon's knife. Using a specially designed glass inhaler containing an ether-soaked sponge, Morton administered the anesthetic to Gilbert Abbott, a printer who had come to the MGH for treatment of a vascular tumor on his jaw.  After several minutes, Abbott was rendered unconscious.  John Collins Warren, MD, one of the most widely recognized surgeons of that time, then surgically removed the tumor.  Upon wakening, Abbott informed the curious and skeptical physicians and medical students in the theater that he had experienced no pain.  If it wasn't for a medical discovery like ether and other medicines, many would be experiencing the indescribably pain of the surgeon's knife and some would own a gravestone.  Through the Renaissance, both men and women practiced medic...

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