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| Emergency Treatment Tank (Chamber) | ||
| A fully enclosed regeneration device. |
It happens to agents all the time; there is a lot of wear and tear on missions.
| ...And the picture of the tall, gray-haired man... grew slowly through the telepath transmitter into the mind of the small, wiry shape - half restored and covered with irregular patches of new pink skin - in the ship's Emergency Treatment Chamber.
"Back in the tank again, eh?" the Co-ordinator observed critically. "For the second day after a mission, you don't look too bad." |
| From Agent of Vega,
by James Schmitz. Published by Astounding Science-Fiction in 1949 Additional resources -
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Here's another quote, with a slightly different term:
Compare this to the autodoc from Larry Niven's 1970 novel Ringworld and the crechepod from Frank Herberts 1972 novel The Godmakers
"I like these little extra jobs I get whenever you think of me... After the last two of them, as I recall it," he continued pointedly, "I turned in my final mission report from the emergency treatment tank of my ship..."
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