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When was ether first used for anesthesia?

Even now it takes a lot of courage to agree to an operation. And you imagine that there is no anesthesia, and you are forced to suffer from pain! Indeed, before the use of modern anesthetics, each operation brought a person to agony, and sometimes to death from pain and shock.

Since ancient times, various herbs, gases, oils, and medicines have been used in an attempt to reduce pain, but nothing has been completely effective. There is great controversy over who discovered anesthesia, and opinion is divided. In 1799, Humphry Davy stated that nitrous oxide (laughing gas) causes unconsciousness. After 19 years, another English scientist, Michael Faraday, suggested that ether could be used to block pain.

In 1842, Crawford W. Long, an American physician, removed a cyst from an unconscious patient because he had inhaled ether, but unfortunately the physician did not describe his experience. H. Wells, a dentist in Hartford, Connecticut, used laughing gas with great success during a tooth extraction.

In 1846, Boston dentist W. T. G. Morton, with Charles Jackson, publicly demonstrated the use of ethyl anesthesia at Massachusetts General Hospital while Dr. J. S. Warren performed the operation. This was the first public demonstration of the use of ether, and it was probably the most important step in putting it into practice.

To date, many new types of anesthesia have appeared, but they are divided into two main classes: general and local. The most common anesthetics are gases which, when inhaled, result in unconsciousness. These are the following gases: nitrous oxide, chloroform vapors, ether, ethylene.

Some of the anesthetics may be drugs that are injected into the blood, such as Pentothal. Local anesthesia acts after the introduction of a narcotic substance into the area of the operation, or disables the nerves operating in this area.

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