cauterizations

This time, though, instead of homeopathic medication and hoping for the best, she had the money to afford a Dr. Bowditch who proceeded to do a series of painful cauterizations of her windpipe.

Louisa May Alcott Susan Cheever 2010

D, Completely and permanently cured after repeated cauterizations.

Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911

The utmost caution should be used to avoid deep cauterizations; they are almost certain to set up perichondritis which will increase the stenosis.

Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911

Then came spinal pain and irregular menstruation, a long course of local cauterizations of the womb, spinal braces, and endless tonics and narcotics.

Fat and Blood An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria John K. [Editor] Mitchell 1871

In New Jersey, an aspiring hospital must commit to performing at least 15 pancreas transplants a year to garner CON approval; in West Virginia, a hospital must perform no fewer than 300 cardiac catheterizations a year; and in Washington state, "hospitals applying for a pediatric cardiac surgery and interventional center certificate of need must demonstrate that they can meet one hundred ten percent of the minimum volume standards" -- one hundred cardiac surgical procedures and one hundred fifty cauterizations every year.

Gooznews 2008