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    Anesthesia has gone through 3 phases of development: pre-operative, peri-operative, and post-operative. The document outlines the history of anesthesia from its early uses of plants like cocaine for pain relief in ancient times, to major developments like Joseph Priestley discovering nitrous oxide in 1772, William Morton using diethyl ether for the first public surgery with anesthesia in 1846, and John Snow becoming known as the "Father of Anesthesia" for his use of chloroform for Queen Victoria's labor pain in 1853. The history shows advances from early discoveries to refinements in techniques and types of anesthesia over centuries.

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    Anesthesia has gone through 3 phases of development: pre-operative, peri-operative, and post-operative. The document outlines the history of anesthesia from its early uses of plants like cocaine for pain relief in ancient times, to major developments like Joseph Priestley discovering nitrous oxide in 1772, William Morton using diethyl ether for the first public surgery with anesthesia in 1846, and John Snow becoming known as the "Father of Anesthesia" for his use of chloroform for Queen Victoria's labor pain in 1853. The history shows advances from early discoveries to refinements in techniques and types of anesthesia over centuries.

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    Anesthesia has gone through 3 phases of development: pre-operative, peri-operative, and post-operative. The document outlines the history of anesthesia from its early uses of plants like cocaine for pain relief in ancient times, to major developments like Joseph Priestley discovering nitrous oxide in 1772, William Morton using diethyl ether for the first public surgery with anesthesia in 1846, and John Snow becoming known as the "Father of Anesthesia" for his use of chloroform for Queen Victoria's labor pain in 1853. The history shows advances from early discoveries to refinements in techniques and types of anesthesia over centuries.

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    ANESTHESIA

    Brief History of Anesthesia


    3 phases of anesthesia:
    1. pre-operative
    2. peri-operative
    3.post-operative
    Cocaine plant(extract)- used to abate the pain in ancient times
    Anaesthesia
    1751 Baileys English Dictionary
    a defect of sensation
    1846 --> liver Wendell Holmes sleep like state that makes painless surgery possible
    Joseph Priestley
    discovered nitrous oxide (1772) (for labor anesthesia)
    blue tank
    Humphry Dacy (1779)
    first to describe the analgesic effects of nitrous oxide
    Horace Wells (1844)
    fist to publicly promote nitrous oxide gas inhalation for pain relief during dental and surgical procedure
    William TG Morton (1846)
    first to publicly use diethyl ester to produce surgical anesthesia
    James Y. Simpson (1847)
    introduced chloroforms as an alternative to ether
    Labor anesthesia
    John Snow
    o
    consider as the 1st anesthetist
    o
    regarded as the Father of Anesthesia
    o
    famous patient was Queen Victoria for anesthesia in labor (choloform)
    Carl Koler (1864)
    introduced topical anesthesia using cocaine
    August Buer (1898)
    introduced the first true spinal anesthesia
    John Lundy (1926)
    introduced the concept of balanced anesthesia
    DR. Quintin Gomez
    Father of Anesthesia in the Philippines

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