2014学年9月大学英语B题库阅读1一.docVIP

10、 No one is glad to hear that his body has to be cut open by a surgeon（外科医生） and part of it taken out. Today, however, we neednt worry about feeling of pain during the operation. The sick person falls into a kind of sleep, and when he awakes, the operation is finished. But these happy conditions are fairly new. It is not many years since a man who had to have an operation felt all his pain. Long ago, operation had usually to be done while the sick man could feel everything. The sick man had to be held down on a table by force while the doctors did their best for him. He could feel al