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The first historical achievement in anesthesia occurred around 4000 BC in ancient Mesopotamia. [5] [10] [32] [33] [34] This was the advent of Ethanol (commonly known as ‘drinking alcohol’), the first general anaesthetic agent.
William Thomas Green Morton and the discovery of anesthesia]. Schweizerische Medizinische Wochenschrift (in German). 126 (47): 2040– 2. PMID 8984612. Pavlovskiĭ L. N. (2005). "Dentist William Morton is a founder of general anesthesia" [Dentist William Morton is a founder of general anesthesia]. Likars'ka Sprava (in Russian) (1– 2): 111– 5.
Anesthesia is a combination of the endpoints (discussed above) that are reached by drugs acting on different but overlapping sites in the central nervous system. General anesthesia (as opposed to sedation or regional anesthesia) has three main goals: lack of movement , unconsciousness, and blunting of the stress response. In the early days of ...
Crawford Williamson Long pioneered ether for anesthesia. 1844. Horace Wells pioneered nitrous oxide for anesthesia. 1848. James Young Simpson pioneered chloroform for anesthesia. 1851. Antonius Mathijsen invented the Plaster of paris cast. 1852. J. Marion Sims successfully repaired a vesicovaginal fistula. 1854. John Snow disproved the miasma ...
Horace Wells (January 21, 1815 – January 24, 1848) was an American dentist who pioneered the use of anesthesia in medicine, specifically the use of nitrous oxide (or laughing gas). Early life [ edit ]
The Invention of the Modern Hospital: Boston 1870–1930 (1980) Wall, Barbra Mann. Unlikely Entrepreneurs: Catholic Sisters and the Hospital Marketplace, 1865–1925 (2005) Wall, Barbra Mann. American Catholic Hospitals: A Century of Changing Markets and Missions (2010) excerpt and text search
General anaesthesia (UK) or general anesthesia (US) is medically induced loss of consciousness that renders a patient unarousable even by painful stimuli. [5] It is achieved through medications, which can be injected or inhaled, often with an analgesic and neuromuscular blocking agent .
Crawford Long U.S. postage stamp. Long was born in Danielsville, [3] Madison County, Georgia on November 1, 1815, to James and Elizabeth Long. [4] His father was a state senator, a merchant and a planter, and named his son after his close friend and colleague, Georgia statesman William H. Crawford.