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Historical anesthesia - a presentation by Adalbert (not to be confused with Albert) Benedyk

Anesthesia pioneer Crawford W. Longwas was the first to use anaesthesia during an operation, giving it to a boy before excising a cyst from his neck

Historical anaesthetic techniques (and their first usage):

• acupuncture (Taoists from China)
• hyperventilation
• alcohol

Herbal preparations

• opium (Mesopotamia in 8^th century)
• cannabis
• scopolamine from datura and coca (shamans from Colombia, South America)
• hyoscyamine from mandrake and henbane (Medieval Europe)
• Tsusensan from datura and aconitum (Japanese surgeon Hanaoka Seishū, 1804)

Chemicals

• diethyl ether (dentist William E. Clarke - tooth extraction, January 1842)
• nitrous oxide - "laughing gas" (American dentist Horace Wells - tooth extraction, December 1844)
• chloroform (Scottish doctor Sir James Young Simpson, January 19 1847)