An interactive timeline of the history of anesthesia and the profession of anesthesiology through important milestone people, places, dates and developments.

11 нояб. 2015 г. · An early form of anesthesia was first used at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston by dentist William TG Morton and surgeon John Warren on October 16, 1846.

Attempts at producing a state of general anesthesia can be traced back to the writings of ancient Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Egyptians, Indians, and ... Etymology of anesthesia · 19th century · 20th century

There is an assumption that anaesthesia started in the 1840s when nitrous oxide and ether were administered in a few affluent countries for the first time.

One of the first accounts of an endotracheal tube being used for an airway comes from the pediatrician Joseph O'Dwyer (1841-1898). He used the metal "O'dwyer" ...

The origins of anaesthesia. An ancient Italian practice was to cover a patient's head with a wooden bowl and beat on it repeatedly until the patient lost ...

8 нояб. 2024 г. · In addition, the early anesthetics were administered by simple devices consisting of glass or metal containers for sponges soaked in ether or ...

Crawford Long, a physician in Jefferson, Georgia, performed the first recorded ether anesthetic in 1842. He subsequently performed several other successful ...

Attempts to alleviate the pain of disease, injury or simple surgical procedures by producing unconsciousness are almost as old as civilization.

A Division of Anesthesiology was created in 1948, and steadily grew during the decades that followed, becoming a full Department in 1967.