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History of anesthesiology
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This is short historic account of milestones in anesthesiology. Please click any of the 40 pictures to see the story behind it:
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The development of
intratracheal insufflation with positive pressure 1871-1910. More... |
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Pierre Oré reintroduced intravenous anesthesia in 1875 and Emile Fischer synthesized a drug of lasting value in 1903. More... | |||
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Carl Koller and Leonard
Corning, the clinical introduction of cocaine as local anesthetics
1884 -1885. More... |
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The use of cold as an anesthetic agent from Avicenna to Richardson and beyond. More... | |||
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Gardner Colton and
Paul Bert both instrumental in the acceptance of nitrous oxide anesthesia
1862-1878. More... |
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Claude Bernard studied inhalations anesthetics and the alkaloids and suggested the use of mixed anesthesia 1864. More... | |||
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E Marey invented equipment and graphical recording techniques for studies in science and medicine. More... |  |
Clover invented means to administer anesthetic gases and stressed the importance of vital signs monitoring. More... | |||
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John Snow placed
the administration of ether and chloroform on a scientific basis 1858. More... |
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Simpson pioneered the use of chloroform in midwifery, Queen Victoria becoming a celebrated patient in 1853. More... | |||
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Flourens and Longet
were the first to study the effects of ether and chloroform on the
central nervous system. More... |
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Surgeons J C Warren and H J Bigelow and the first announcement of the successful ether anesthesia. More... | |||
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Massachusetts General
Hospital and the operating theater where ether anesthesia was introduced,
as seen 1847. More... |
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Charles Jackson played
a key role in the successful demonstration of ether anesthesia on
October 16 1846. More... |
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William Morton demonstrated
ether anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital on October
16 1846. More... |
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Crawford Long a general
practitioner in Georgia who was first to use ether for surgical anesthesia,
in 1842. More... |
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Henry Hickman and
Horace Wells, young men who tried in vain to establish the practice
of inhalation anesthesia. More... |
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Liebig, Souberain
and Guthrie discovered chloroform in 1831, Dumas determined its proper
formula in 1834. More... |
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Serturner isolated
morphine, the active part of opium in 1805 and Magendie introduced
it into medical practice in 1822. More... |
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Hanaoka Seishu Japanese
physician who produced general anesthesia using a recipe based on
mandragora 1805 More... |
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In 1830, nitrous
oxide (laughing gas) was only suggested for other uses than medical. More... |
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Sir Humphry Davy
discovered the anesthetic properties of nitrous oxide and suggested
its use in surgery 1800. More... |
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Joseph Priestley discovered many important gases including nitrous oxide, which he first prepared in 1772. More... |  |
Matthew Turner a
surgeon in Liverpool who manufactured ether and used it to treat many
ailments 1761. More... |
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Occult methods of
healing and pain relief – from shamanism to mesmerism 16000
BC to 1784 AD. More... |
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Sir Christopher Wren,
famous architect who performed the first intravenous anesthesia around
1656. More... |
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The development of
the understanding of what a gas is, by van Helmont, Boyle and Bernoulli
1648-1738 More... |
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William Shakespeare
refers to soporific agents in his plays Othello (1604) and Anthony
and Cleopatra (1606) More... |
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Paracelsus who discovered
and described the anesthetic effects of ether, around 1540 More... |
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Raymond Lull, Valerius
Cordus and Antoine Baume and the discovery and preparation of ether
1275-1757 More... |
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Heinrich von Pfolsprundt
gave an early account of the use of the soporific sponge in European
surgery 1460 More... |
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The famed surgeons
Albucasis and Ibn Zuhr used the soporific sponge for inhalation anesthesia
1000-1100 AD More... |
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Avicenna, Islamic philosopher, the Prince of Physicians, who wrote the Cannon of Medicine about 1000 AD. More... |  |
Greek physician Dioscorides, wrote a comprehensive treatise on medical plants, De Materia Medica, 77 AD. More... | |||
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Cornelius Celsus described in some detail the preparation of pills that could alleviate pain about 25 AD. More... |  |
The Greek philosopher Theophrastus, the founder of botany, wrote on opium and other plants around 300 BC. More... | |||
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Babylonian – Assyrian prescriptions for pain relief in cuneiform writing on clay tablets about 1000 BC. More... |  |
Queen Nefertiti offering the mandrake (mandragora) plant to her husband, Pharaoh Akhenaten, around 1350 BC. More... | |||
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According to the Ebers Papyrus, a 110-page medical papyri, henbane was know in ancient Egypt about 1550 BC. More... |  |
The Second Emperor of China, Shen Nung, who described the hemp plant (cannabis) around 2700 BC. More... |
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