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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.
The American Dental Association honored Wells posthumously in 1864 as the discoverer of modern anesthesia, [18] and the American Medical Association recognized his achievement in 1870. [19] [20] Hartford, Connecticut, has a statue of Horace Wells in Bushnell Park. [21] [22] A monument to Horace Wells was raised in the Place des États-Unis ...
He was the first person to perform surgery with the aid of anesthesia, some 1600 years before the practice was adopted by Europeans. [38] Bian Que (Pien Ch'iao) was a "miracle doctor" described by the Chinese historian Sima Qian in his Shiji who was credited with many skills.
Sir James Young Simpson, 1st Baronet FRSE FRCPE FSA Scot (7 June 1811 – 6 May 1870) was a Scottish obstetrician and a significant figure in the history of medicine.He was the first physician to demonstrate the anaesthetic properties of chloroform in humans and helped to popularize its use in medicine.
World Anesthesia Day or World Anaesthesia Day, also known in some countries as National Anaesthesia Day or Ether Day, is an annual event celebrated around the world on 16 October to commemorate the first successful demonstration of diethyl ether anesthesia by William T. G. Morton on 16 October 1846.
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.
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 ...