We have therefore a right to conclude, that when death follows soon after any great shock it is as easy and painless a death as possible; and this is certainly what happens when an animal is seized by a beast of prey.
Cold is generally severest at night and has a tendency to produce sleep and painless extinction.
Illness, and what answers to poverty in animals--continued hunger--are quickly followed by unanticipated and almost painless extinction.
When an animal is caught, therefore, it is very soon devoured, and thus the first shock is followed by an almost painless death.
Meanwhile, with a presentiment of her impending doom, she made special studies of all sorts of poisons, to discern, if possible, which would occasion the most speedy and painless death.
At length she discovered that the asp was the only one whose bite occasioned neither torture nor convulsions, the victim being speedily stupefied, and dying in a seemingly painless sleep.
To those who will commit themselves to this course of life, patiently and persistently carrying it out through the period of gestation, the possibilities of attaining a healthy, natural, painless parturition will be remarkably increased.
Haff, "have been largely devoted to directions how to secure a comfortable period of pregnancy and painless delivery.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, in a lecture to ladies, thus strongly states her views regarding maternity and painless childbirth: "We must educate our daughters to think that motherhood is grand, and that God never cursed it.
But yesterday my teeth were aching, and to the painless dentist's lair I took my way, unawed, unquaking, and sat down in the fatal chair.
They are meant to teach that the ideal life is one, not of painless ease, but of joyous action.
I can tell you of a very swift and painless method.
And it will produce, as Madame Volkenburg says, swift and painless death, at least upon an animal," added Dolores.
After all, the assimilation of new ideas is not the most painless of processes, whatever the age of the assimilator.
Its slender arc is her bow; its beams are her arrows with which she sends upon womankind a speedy and painless death.
The little song ending with "I heav'd the painless sigh for thee!
The only brave thing to do then would be to commit suicide, and, thinking this over too, Philip decided minutely what painless drug he would take and how he would get hold of it.
May he have a swift and painless end such as his genial spirit deserves, and not linger on into a twilight life with failing senses.
Under the roaring L, past dingy saloons, animal shops, tinsmiths, andpainless dentists, past the old dismantled Manhattan hospital.
Am I repentant for the act, the last on earth in my power, to save From the long-drawn misery of life, in the early death and the painless grave?
I have joy to utter praise meet for the act, for by such charms of song doth a man make even labour a painless thing.
It is useful in those cases in which a mild and comparativelypainless caustic is advisable.
Perforating ulcer of the foot is a rare disease, consisting of an indolent and usually painless sinus leading down to diseased bone.
Abdomen hard; tense and swollen withpainless rumblings unaccompanied with belching of wind; he goes to bed with these symptoms, but they are gone in the morning.
In about fifteen minutes after the intra-venous injection of 13 minims of undiluted Aqua Ammoniae, the doctor "was astonished at the calm and painless expression of her countenance, so lately expressive of anxiety and pain.
In the evening there appeared under the upper lip, upon the gum, a hard painless tumor which broke of itself during the night.
The taking of those 260 bodies out of the world, then, was a painless process.
His had been a speedy, painless death; one sharp electric stroke and then the closing night.
A lonely death may be terrible, but a universal one, as painless as this would appear to be, is not, in my judgment, a matter for apprehension.
The important question arises whether, as compassionate men, we should be justified in carrying out their wish and ending their sufferings by a painless death.
Windischmann has shown that the Iranians, too, were acquainted with two trees, one called Gaokerena, bearing the white Haoma, the other called the Painless tree.
A drop of a two-per-cent solution of cocaine will render painlessthe manipulations.
Wens are elastic lumps, painless and of slow growth, and most readily removed.
Besides, vivisection may be painless in cases where the experiments are very cruel.
