#anesthesia

Stories tagged “anesthesia” in the Weird Science History archive — 3 stories connected by this topic.

• The Dinner Party Where Three Doctors Sniffed Chloroform and Woke Up Under the Table
• From Laughing Gas Parties to the Operating Room: A Short History of Anesthesia
• The Surgeon So Fast He Supposedly Killed Three People With One Amputation

Related topics: #ether #surgery #19th century #chloroform #Crawford Long #Edinburgh #Horace Wells #Humphry Davy