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HISTORY OF ANESTHESIOLOGY
PRE - HISTORY OF ANESTHESIA
Bian Que (300 BC) was a
legendary
Chinese internist and
surgeon
Davy, who coined the term "laughing gas" for nitrous oxide
Humphry Davy (1778–1829) as superintendent of the institute,
Joseph Priestley (1733–1804)
and engineer was an English polymath
James Watt(1736–1819) who discovered
to help manufacture the nitrous
oxide, nitric oxide, ammonia, hydrogen chloride and oxygen.
gases
Friedrich Sertürner (1783–1841) first
isolated morphine from opium in 1804;[59] he
named it morphine after Morpheus, the Greek
god of dreams.
Crawford W. Long (1815–1878) He postulated
that that diethyl ether produced pharmacologic
effects similar to those of nitrous oxide.
William T. G. Morton (1819–1868), another New
England dentist, demonstrate his technique for
dental extraction under nitrous oxide general
anesthesia at Massachusetts General Hospital, For
many years, Morton was credited as being the
pioneer of general anesthesia in the Western
hemisphere, despite the fact that his
demonstration occurred four years after Long's
initial experience.
Hermann Emil Fischer (1852–1919) and Joseph von Mering (1849–1908)
discovered that diethylbarbituric acid was an effective hypnotic agent.
Known as barbiturate
Chevalier Jackson (1865–1958) was the first to report a high rate of
success for the use of direct laryngoscopy as a means to intubate the
trachea.
Sodium thiopental, the first intravenous anesthetic, was synthesized in
1934 by Ernest H. Volwiler (1893–1992) and Donalee L. Tabern (1900–
1974)
After World War I, further advances were made in the field of intratracheal
anesthesia. Among these were those made by Sir Ivan Whiteside
Magill (1888–1986)
Dr. Moch Kelan 3 years.
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