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Historical anesthesia - a presentation by Adalbert (not to be confused with Albert) Benedyk

Historical anaesthetic techniques (and their first usage):
 * acupuncture (Taoists from China)
 * hyperventilation
 * alcohol


 * Herbal preparations:


 * opium (Mesopotamia in 8th century)
 * cannabis
 * scopolamine from datura and coca (shamans from Colombia, South America)
 * hyoscyamine from mandrake and henbane (Medieval Europe)
 * Tsusensan from datura and aconitum (Japanese surgeon Hanaoka Seishū, 1804)


 * Chemicals


 * diethyl ether (dentist William E. Clarke - tooth extraction, January 1842)
 * nitrous oxide - "laughing gas" (American dentist Horace Wells - tooth extraction, December 1844)
 * chloroform (Scottish doctor Sir James Young Simpson, January 19 1847)