Essay about Crawford Long: Discovery of Anesthesia

Mallory Whitson Justice 1st Period 2 February 2010 Anesthesia Anesthesia is the loss of feeling or sensation. It may be accomplished without the loss of consciousness, or with partial or total loss of consciousness. Anesthesia has not been around forever, but there is a background history of its creation and the primitive anesthetics used before anesthesia was discovered. Today there are many different anesthetics and delivery methods dependent to the type of procedure. Anesthesiologists

Introduction to Anesthesia Before 1846 there weren’t any truly effective methods of pain control during surgical operations. However, methods of relieving pain, inducing drowsiness, and provoking stupor, have been used all over the world since the beginning of ancient civilizations. Plants like opium, cannabis, and mandragora were used in ancient times as drugs that relived general and procedural pain. There are ancient Chinese legends like Pien ch’iao and Hua T’o, whose stories resemble early ideas

lives day to day seeing the next medicine breakthrough. It is easy for us to assume that’s how the history of medicine has always been. On the contrary, medicine became positively modern in the 19th century, new inventions were introduced, new discoveries were brought to their attention, remedies was in the spotlight, and the start of women’s professions generated. Vaccines are the most successful strategies in medicine to prevent and even eliminate the most gruesome and contagious diseases. For

“Accidental” discoveries are inventions that were discovered through no intention of discovery. From the good to the bad these types of inventions have changed our lives forever. These types of things are both things we use everyday, down to food people eat everyday. Food is a necessity to live, but what will surprise you is that some of the food people today were all “accidental” discoveries. Saccharin is an artificial sweetener people use to sweeten their food. This was discovered in 1879 when

The Study of Anesthesia: History, Chemistry, and Activity By Cordell Jones The Description of Anesthesia, It’s Effects, its Careers, and it’s Future By Cordell Jones Introduction In 1591, a young mother was dragged from her home and taken away. Her mercy pleas were ignored, and she was thrown intro a pit and buried alive. What was this mother’s crime? She had given birth to twin sons, and during her labor she had asked for some pain relief. The Church regarded the

In 1849, the American surgeon James Marion Sims was credited with being the first doctor to successfully repair this condition surgically (Ojanuga 1993). His methods included operations on 14 African American female slaves without the benefit of anesthesia. Many women underwent multiple operations, as many as 30 separate times (Macleod 1999). However, Sims is hailed as a heroic and noble contributor to the medical world and women’s health, yet his work only recently been questioned regarding his controversial

While not great at surgery, he was interested in anesthesia, which was not known about at the time. Snow had heard how in America, people like Dr. Crawford W. Long had “etherized James Venable for removal of neck cysts on March 30, 1842.” (WLM, 2017). He then went on to develop one of the first anesthesiology practices after he had “developed devices for

or skull. In 1846 anesthesia was used by William Morton, a dentist. Morton is credited with the discovery of surgical anesthesia, but Crawford W. Long used anesthesia in 1842 to remove tumors but didn’t publish his results until 1849. Meanwhile, the ancient Chinese have been using anesthesia 1600 years before the Europeans. Hua Tuo, a famous Chinese physician during the Eastern Han and Three Kingdoms era, was the first person to perform surgery with the aid of anesthesia. Surgeons began performing