FIRST AMERICAN
PROCEDURE USING
ANESTHESIA: Illustration of
dentist William T.G. Morton &
surgeon John Warren giving
anesthesia to patient Glenn
Abbott at Boston’s
Massachusetts General
Hospital on October 16, 1846.
Illustration: Wikimedia
Commons
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There have been different methods used throughout time to prevent pain during surgeries, including different herbal methods. However, the first public use of modern anesthesia was documented at Massachusetts
General Hospital on October 16, 1846. William T.G. Morton and John Collins Warren used diethyl ether on this historical day. This marks the beginning of the development of modern anesthesia. At first, the main problems were infection and safe administration methods. After much work and improvements, the modern idea of anesthesia was in place by 1950. |
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