They would anesthetize people, convulse them, but the real difficulty was that there was no way to paralyze muscles.

She was able to anesthetize her quickly, and it was important because of the emergency nature of the situation.

But if you remove the arm, you simply anesthetize my arm, so you put an injection into my arm, anesthetize the brachial plexus, so the arm is numb, and there is no sensations coming in, if I now watch you being touched, I literally feel it in my hand.

But the nurse is literally running around a darkened operating theater trying to find anything she can use to anesthetize her patient, to keep her patient asleep.

And what he came up with was this guy, the prototype for the Universal Anesthesia Machine a machine that would work and anesthetize his patients no matter the circumstances that his hospital had to offer.

The surgery on offer was pretty gruesome anesthetize you, open your chest, put you on an artificial heart and lung machine, drop your body temperature to about 18 centigrade, stop your heart, cut the aorta out, replace it with a plastic valve and a plastic aorta, and, most importantly, commit you to a lifetime of anticoagulation therapy, normally warfarin.