Medicine & Health · Anaesthesiology & Pain Medicine
A topic within Anaesthesiology & Pain Medicine, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Medicine & Health.
2 works
Henry Jacob Bigelow
Reports the first public demonstrations of ether anaesthesia at Massachusetts General Hospital, arguing from these operations that surgical pain is no longer a necessary condition of surgery.
link checked 17 Sept 2026John Snow
A systematic physiological study of chloroform's dose-dependent stages of action, arguing anaesthesia should be titrated and monitored as a controllable physiological state rather than administered as a fixed dose — the study was left unfinished by Snow's death and published posthumously.
link checked 17 Sept 2026