When were anesthetics invented?

Answer 1

Anesthesia for surgery was introduced in America only in the 1840s. Before this time, surgical patients were simply expected to withstand the pain of the procedure. Alternatively, they were intoxicated with alcohol or opiates (e.g., laudanum). Humphry Davy (1778-829), a famous English chemist, discovered through self-experimentation that nitrous oxide relieved headache and dental pain, but his report went unnoticed in the medial community; it did, however, led to the use of "laughing gas", and later ether, for entertainment at parties! The first demonstration of surgical anesthesia was by Horace Wells (1815-1848), an American dentist who had observed the effects of nitrous oxide at a traveling medicine show.

Answer 2

The earliest recorded use of anesthetics was the use of opium-like preparations, recorded in the Ebers Papyrus of 1500 BC.

Answer 3

Anaesthesia for surgery was introduced to America in the 1840's. I hope this helped.

Answer 4

I think it's Dr. Crawford W. Long, but I'm not for certain.

Answer 5

in the mid-1800s when doctors Crawford Long, Gardner Colton, and Horace Wells perfected the use of ether and nitrous oxide anesthetics.

Answer 6

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