The first intravenous anaesthetic: how well was it managed and its potential realized?
Our speciality commonly traces its origin to a demonstration of the inhalation of ether by a patient undergoing surgery in Boston in 1846. Less well known is the demonstration of the i.v. injection of opium with alcohol into a dog in Oxford in 1656, leading to anaesthesia followed by full long-term...
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| Format: | Journal article |
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2013
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