HISTORY

HISTORY

Anaesthesia, as we know it today , was first successfully demon strated by William Morton, a local dentist, at the Massachu setts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA on 16 October 1846 when he administered ether to Gilbert Abbot for an operation on a vascular tumour on his neck. Earlier Horace Wells had used nitrous oxide in 1844 for painless extraction of teeth successfully . Simpson, at Edinburgh Univ ersity , overcame some of the technical di ffi culties of ether administration by introducing chloroform. The benefits of anaesthesia were then universally recognised and antagonism by r eligious leaders was countered when Queen Victoria accepted chloroform from John Snow during the birth of Prince Leopold in 1853. HISTORY

Anaesthesia, as we know it today , was first successfully demon strated by William Morton, a local dentist, at the Massachu setts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA on 16 October 1846 when he administered ether to Gilbert Abbot for an operation on a vascular tumour on his neck. Earlier Horace Wells had used nitrous oxide in 1844 for painless extraction of teeth successfully . Simpson, at Edinburgh Univ ersity , overcame some of the technical di ffi culties of ether administration by introducing chloroform. The benefits of anaesthesia were then universally recognised and antagonism by r eligious leaders was countered when Queen Victoria accepted chloroform from John Snow during the birth of Prince Leopold in 1853. HISTORY

Anaesthesia, as we know it today , was first successfully demon strated by William Morton, a local dentist, at the Massachu setts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA on 16 October 1846 when he administered ether to Gilbert Abbot for an operation on a vascular tumour on his neck. Earlier Horace Wells had used nitrous oxide in 1844 for painless extraction of teeth successfully . Simpson, at Edinburgh Univ ersity , overcame some of the technical di ffi culties of ether administration by introducing chloroform. The benefits of anaesthesia were then universally recognised and antagonism by r eligious leaders was countered when Queen Victoria accepted chloroform from John Snow during the birth of Prince Leopold in 1853.