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One of the very few accounts describing the pain of surgery is that of Fanny Burney, an English novelist who had to undergo a mastectomy in 1811, and recounted her experience as “terror that surpasses all description.” \n\n ![Graph](image://305765d5-efd0-49e2-a396-39fb049e11f1 \"A particularly painful tooth extraction\")\n\n","7154c5a4-aacc-4e6a-85b7-7306b9bfef16",[35],{"id":36,"data":37,"type":38,"version":20,"maxContentLevel":19},"f154446e-affb-4992-8b5e-42b308c28d1c",{"type":38,"reviewType":39,"spacingBehaviour":20,"clozeQuestion":40,"clozeWords":42},11,4,[41],"Methods used to relieve pain during medical procedures prior to inventing anesthesia included blows to the head, herbal mixtures and even hypnotism.",[43,44,45],"blows to the head","herbal","hypnotism",{"id":47,"data":48,"type":20,"maxContentLevel":19,"version":20,"reviews":52},"0a554b36-b3ba-4255-bf66-fbe4bf31dd1a",{"type":20,"title":49,"markdownContent":50,"audioMediaId":51},"The Discovery of Gases","During the Enlightenment in the mid-1700s, gases like carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide were discovered, which were also explored for their therapeutic and anesthetic properties. In 1779, Sir Humphry Davy, a British chemist who discovered several chemical elements and compounds, suggested the use of nitrous oxide – known today as laughing gas – to produce pain relief, which he first tested on himself. \n\nIn the early 1820s, British doctor and surgeon Henry Hickman, in his efforts to alleviate pain during surgery for his patients, experimented on animals using carbon dioxide gas while operating on them. The animals seemingly felt no pain and recovered fully from what he called a state of ‘suspended animation.’ Hickman though was unsuccessful in publishing his research and died shortly after.\n\nIn 1844, an American dentist called Horace Wells was the first to use nitrous oxide for a tooth extraction of one of his patients, but it didn’t work as adequate pain relief. 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However, in the mid-1840s, a young American dentist named William Morton was committed to discovering an effective pain relief and settled on *sulfuric ether*. Morton experimented on small animals and discovered that, when they inhaled ether, they passed out and became unresponsive. \n\nOn October 16th, 1846, Morton performed the first general anesthesia on a patient in a public demonstration at Massachusetts General Hospital. A surgeon then performed a tumor excision on the patient’s neck without any distress. Much to everyone’s surprise, ether had successfully worked as an anesthetic, hailing a new era in the field of medical surgery. The operating theater where the above occurred is known as the Ether Dome and is still preserved at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and the 16th of October is celebrated as World Anesthesia Day.\n\n ![Graph](image://56e29c4c-dc1a-4972-ab80-15c7f479ce2a \"Anesthesia 1914\")\n\n","ad693204-7dae-498a-9272-504ab1025b9c",[83,94,105],{"id":84,"data":85,"type":38,"version":20,"maxContentLevel":19},"0286cf6c-6347-47c6-a8a9-dc8480b995b6",{"type":38,"reviewType":19,"spacingBehaviour":20,"multiChoiceQuestion":86,"multiChoiceCorrect":88,"multiChoiceIncorrect":90},[87],"When was the first instance of successful general anesthesia conducted?",[89],"1846",[91,92,93],"1746","1946","1914",{"id":95,"data":96,"type":38,"version":20,"maxContentLevel":19},"2c251ea0-df4b-4349-ba1b-a236417ed6b2",{"type":38,"reviewType":19,"spacingBehaviour":20,"multiChoiceQuestion":97,"multiChoiceCorrect":99,"multiChoiceIncorrect":101},[98],"When is World Anesthesia Day celebrated?",[100],"16th October",[102,103,104],"29th March","31st February","12th November",{"id":106,"data":107,"type":38,"version":20,"maxContentLevel":19},"f7ff21f8-a1f2-44f6-b5e7-0493e8db7c03",{"type":38,"reviewType":20,"spacingBehaviour":20,"activeRecallQuestion":108,"activeRecallAnswers":110},[109],"Which gas was used by William Morton, the surgeon who conducted the first successful general anesthesia in Massachusetts General Hospital?",[111],"Sulfuric ether",{"id":113,"data":114,"type":20,"maxContentLevel":19,"version":20,"reviews":118},"e57bbba1-52a1-45c3-905b-bddca63585c7",{"type":20,"title":115,"markdownContent":116,"audioMediaId":117},"Chloroform","The successful use of ether as a general anesthetic in the U.S. led to the discovery of chloroform's use as an anaesthetic in England in 1847, by James Simpson, who was a Professor of Midwifery and had pioneered inhalational analgesia for women in labor. English doctor John Snow popularized the use of chloroform by using it on Queen Victoria for the birth of her 8th child in 1853. Eventually, chloroform became the most commonly used anesthetic in England, and, by the end of the 19th century, anesthesia had become commonplace in surgical procedures.  \n\nChloroform, however, was a very toxic compound and was also unpredictable, which made maintenance of anesthesia very difficult. It was eventually associated with a substantially high death rate due to cardiac arrest, the first one occurring in 1848 and witnessed by Simpson himself. In other cases, it caused delayed poisoning due to liver damage, and, by the beginning of the 20th century, the need for other, better substances was becoming evident.  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However, nitrous oxide on its own was safe only for brief procedures and was mostly used for tooth extractions. \n\nJoseph Clover, an English surgeon who became one of England’s leading anesthesiologists, was the first to consider combining nitrous oxide with another gas, thus starting the trend of using a combination of several drugs, rather than a larger, more toxic, dose of one. 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Rapid evaporation of ether produced the cooling effect, hence the term ‘freezing’, which is still being used today. \n\nIn 1884, Austrian ophthalmologist Carl Koller was experimenting with different substances to find one that would be safe and effective as a local anesthetic for use during eye surgery. In pharmaceutical circles, the numbing effect of cocaine had already been recognized, and so Koller decided to try placing a few drops of cocaine solution to the cornea. His experiment proved a huge success as cocaine produced insensibility and complete numbing of the eye. \n\nNews of this success traveled quickly and so cocaine became a favorite among doctors as a local anesthetic. 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In 1942, doctors in Montreal introduced ‘curare’ as a muscle relaxant. ‘Curare’, which had first been observed in South American arrows, allowed a lighter depth of general anesthesia than previously possible. This was essential for thorax and abdomen surgery and required anesthetists to learn how to insert a tube through the trachea to allow mechanical ventilation of the lung and ‘control’ breathing. \n\nHalogenated hydrocarbons, which were highly potent, non-flammable anesthetic agents, were introduced in the 1950s replacing ether and chloroform in most operating theatres.\n\nIn the 1960s, new drugs and new monitoring equipment were developed, allowing surgery to be extended to increasingly complex procedures, and today inhaled anesthetics are combined with intravenous anesthetics for ultimate patient comfort and overall surgical success. 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This was then further developed in 1877 by Joseph Clover who invented an inhaler that combined nitrous oxide with ether and dispersed the mix to the patient with a face mask. \n\nDuring the 1940s, another piece of equipment was being perfected – the hollow needle, which allowed easier administration of opium as pain management. 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In 1779, Sir Humphry Davy, a British chemist who discovered several chemical elements and compounds, suggested the use of nitrous oxide – known today as laughing gas – to produce pain relief, which he first tested on himself.",{"type":226,"children":257},[258,262,267],{"type":229,"tag":230,"props":259,"children":260},{},[261],{"type":234,"value":255},{"type":229,"tag":230,"props":263,"children":264},{},[265],{"type":234,"value":266},"In the early 1820s, British doctor and surgeon Henry Hickman, in his efforts to alleviate pain during surgery for his patients, experimented on animals using carbon dioxide gas while operating on them. 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