Unlike the anesthetists of yesteryears, who utilized a single agent like ether or chloroform alone for anesthesia, the present day anesthetists use different drugs for specific effects. This helps ...

Anesthesia has played an integral role in medicine since the first successful surgical procedure was performed with anesthesia in 1846. However, the exact way anesthesia affects the brain is still not ...

The use of the anesthetic agents ether and chloroform was first described in the 1840s by American physicians Crawford Long, William Morton, William Edward Clarke and James Simpson, but anesthesia was ...

A recent neuropsychological evaluation diagnosis impugned several controversial theories about anesthesia and cognitive decline. As a medicinal therapy to relieve pain and brain dysfunction, ...

2700 BC Shen Nung the second Chinese emperor tested the effects of 300 drugs on himself and explained the narcotic properties of the Kemp plant. 1350 BC The soporific and aphrodisiac properties of the ...