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Revision as of 08:18, 20 August 2018

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Time period Development summary
19th century "During most of the nineteenth century, the vast majority of notable advances in the science of anesthesiology were achieved by basic scientists [10]. Among physiologists, Pierre Jean Marie Flourens, François Magendie, and Claude Bernard are respected for their work on the effects and site of action of anesthetic gases. Pharmacologists and chemists, including Joseph Friedrich von Mering, Hans Meyer, and Charles Overton, synthesized novel drugs and investigated the properties that enabled a chemical to function as an anesthetic. Surgeons, obstetricians, and dentists contributed the bulk of clinical advances in the field [10]. Most of the practicing anesthetists functioned primarily as technicians who made meager contributions to advancing the scientific underpinnings of the discipline. But in the late nineteenth century, this would begin to change."[1]

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Year Event type Details Location
1540 "Then, in 1540, Valerius Cordis, the great physician and botanist who authored Dispensatorium, described a revolutionary technique to synthesize ether, which involved adding sulfuric acid to ethyl alcohol."[1]
1578 – 1657 "Contributions to the development of anesthesia included the experiments of William Harvey (1578-1657), culminating in the discovery of the systemic circulation"[1]
1733 – 1804 "identification and characterization of new gases by Joseph Priestley (1733-1804)"[1]
1799 "Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829) introduced nitrous oxide into medical practice in 1799 and"[1]
1820s "and the 1820s movement opposing all types of human suffering promoted by surgeon Henry Hill Hickman (1800-1830)"[1]
1846 "the first successful public demonstration of surgical anesthesia did not occur until 1846."[1]
1857 "Claude Bernard, for example, alluded to the paralytic effect of curare in 1857"[1]

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 "The History of Professionalism in Anesthesiology". journalofethics.ama-assn.org. Retrieved 20 August 2018.