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| 1922 || || "From Cleveland, Ohio, Current Researches in Anesthesia and Analgesia is launched by Francis H. "Frank" McMechan (1879-1939) as the world's first journal published by an anesthesia society, the International Anesthesia Research Society." <ref name="History of Anesthesia"/> ||
 
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| 1940 || || "the American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA) separated from the American Board of Surgery to become an independent entity in 1940 [13], an important step toward professionalization."<ref name="The History of Professionalism in Anesthesiology"/> ||

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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
c.4000 BC "Sumerian artifacts depict opium poppy."[2]
c.2250 BC "Babylonians relieve toothache with henbane (Hyoscyamus niger)."[2]
c.1600 BC "Acupuncture is being practiced in China, according to Shang Dynasty pictographs on bones and turtle shells."[2]
c.600 BC "India's Sushruta uses cannabis vapors to sedate surgical patients. Over ensuing centuries, other herbs like aconitum would supplement that sedation in India and eventually in China."[2]
c.400 BC "Assyrians use carotid compression to produce brief unconsciousness before circumcision or cataract surgery. Egyptians employ the same technique for eye surgery."[2]
c.350 BC "Plato refers to ANAIΣΘHΣIA in his work Timaeus."[2]
64 AC "Dioscorides, a Greek surgeon in the Roman army of Emperor Nero, recommends mandrake boiled in wine to "cause the insensibility of those who are to be cut or cauterized.""[2]
c.160 AC "Hua Tuo (ca. 111 – 207 AD) performs surgery with his general anesthetic Mafeisan, a wine and herbal mixture."[2]
c.800 – 1200s "After herbal mixtures including opium, mandrake, henbane, and/or hemlock are steeped into a soporific or sleep-bearing sponge ("spongia somnifera"), the sponge is dampened so that anesthetic vapors or drippings can be applied to a patient's nostrils. These sponges were likely historical cousins to the so-called Roman or Arabic sponges (used during crucifixions, surgeries, and other painful events)."[2]
c.1350 "Inca shamans chewed coca leaves mixed with vegetable ash and dripped their cocaine-laden saliva into the wounds of patients."[2]
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] "German physician and botanist Valerius Cordus (1515–1544), synthesizes diethyl ether by distilling ethanol and sulphuric acid into what he called "sweet oil of vitriol.""[2]
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]
1659 "The future "Sir Christopher Wren" and Anglo-Irish chemist Robert Boyle (1627–1691) pioneered intravenous therapy by injecting opium through a goose quill into a dog's vein."[2]
1733 – 1804 "identification and characterization of new gases by Joseph Priestley (1733-1804)"[1]
1771 – 1786 "Joseph Priestley (1733–1804)—English chemist and natural philosopher, discovers "airs" of oxygen and nitrous oxide; the first to isolate oxygen."[1]
1779 "Franz Anton Mesmer (1734–1815)—In Mémoire sur la découverte du magnétisme animal, he describes using magnets and hypnosis to cure many ailments."[2]
1799 "Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829) introduced nitrous oxide into medical practice in 1799 and"[1]
1800 "Humphry Davy (1778–1829)—In his Researches..., Davy observes "As nitrous oxide in its extensive operation appears capable of destroying physical pain, it may probably be used with advantage during surgical operations in which no great effusion of blood takes place.""[2]
1804 "Japan's Hanaoka Seishu (1760-1835) formulates his general anesthetic Tsusensan."[2]
1805 "Pharmacist Friedrich Sertürner (1783–1841)—Isolates a new substance from opium, which he later names "morphium" after Morpheus, the god of dreams."[2]
1820s "and the 1820s movement opposing all types of human suffering promoted by surgeon Henry Hill Hickman (1800-1830)"[1]
1824 "Henry Hill Hickman (1800-1830) describes carbon dioxide anesthesia for animals."[2]
1845 "Dr. Horace Wells (1815-1848)-After bravely volunteering to inhale nitrous oxide for his own dental extraction back in December of 1844, Dr. Wells demonstrates nitrous oxide anesthesia for a tooth extraction near Massachusetts General Hospital, but the partial anesthetic is judged a "humbug.""[2]
1846 "On October 16, William T. G. Morton (1819-1868) made history by being first in the world to publicly and successfully demonstrate the use of ether anesthesia for surgery."[2]
1847 "Prof. James Y. Simpson (1811-1870)-Scottish obstetrician begins administering chloroform to women for pain during childbirth. Chloroform quickly becomes a popular anesthetic for surgery and dental procedures as well. Chloroform was discovered independently in 1831 by the USA's Samuel Guthrie, France's Eugène Soubeiran, and Germany's Justus von Liebig."[2]
1853 "Drs. Charles Pravaz (1791-1853) and Alexander Wood (1817-1884)-These men independently invented the hollow hypodermic needle, which will be attached to an earlier invention, the syringe popularized in 1845 by Ireland's Francis Rynd."[2]
1853 – 1857 "Dr. John Snow (1813-1858)-A fulltime anesthetist since 1847, Dr. Snow popularizes obstetric anesthesia by chloroforming Queen Victoria for the birth of Prince Leopold (1853) and Princess Beatrice (1857). His books On the Inhalation of the Vapour of Ether** and On Chloroform and Other Anaesthetics*** enlightened physician-anesthetists. His sourcing of the 1854 London cholera epidemic to the Broad Street water pump founded epidemiology."[2]
1857 "Claude Bernard, for example, alluded to the paralytic effect of curare in 1857"[1]
1863 ""Professor" Gardner Quincy Colton (1814-1898) of the Cooper Institute in New York reintroduces nitrous oxide."[2]
1868 "Dr. Edmund Andrews (1824-1904) of Chicago proposes using nitrous oxide mixed with oxygen as an anesthetic in the Chicago Medical Examiner."[2]
1884 "Dr. Karl Koller (1857-1944)-Viennese ophthalmologist and colleague of Sigmund Freud, introduces cocaine as an anesthetic for eye surgery."[2]
1889 "At the Philadelphia College of Dentistry, Henry I. Dorr, MD, DDS was appointed as the world's 1st Professor of the Practice of Dentistry, Anaesthetics and Anaesthesia. The world's 1st unidisciplinary "Professors of Anaesthesia" will follow in dentistry at Chicago's American College of Dental Surgery (1892, George Leininger, MD) and in medicine at the New York Homeopathic Medical College (1903, T. Drysdale Buchanan, MD).[2]
1891 "From Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, The Dental and Surgical Microcosm is published as the world's first journal "devoted chiefly to the science of Anaesthesia and Anaesthetics.""[2]
1893 "The London Society of Anaesthetists, the world's first anesthesia society, is formed in London, England."[2]
1894 "Medical students E. Amory Codman (1869-1940) and Harvey Cushing (1869-1939)-develop the first anesthesia record using observed respiratory rate and palpated pulse rate. By 1901, Cushing will add blood pressure measurement by Riva Rocci sphygmomanometry; by 1903, respiratory rate and heart rate as auscultated by precordial stethoscope (use of which was pioneered by Cushing on dogs and by his favorite physician-anesthetist, S. Griffith Davis, on patients)."[2]
1898 "Dr. August Bier (1861-1949)-Conducts the first spinal anesthetic using cocaine; 10 years later, he popularized the intravenous regional ("Bier") block."[2]
1901 "Caudal epidural analgesia is described independently by France's Drs. Jean-Anthanase Sicard and Fernand Cathelin. Their innovation comes after an inadvertent epidural injection by Dr. J. Leonard Corning (1855-1923).[2]
1902 "Dr. Mathias J. Seifert of Chicago coins the words "anesthesiology" and "anesthesiologist." He asserted that an "ANESTHETIST" is a technician and an "ANESTHESIOLOGIST" is the scientific authority on anesthesia and anesthetics."[2]
1905 The Long Island Society of Anesthetists (LISA) is founded as the first professional anesthesia society in the United States.[2] United States
1905 "Alfred Einhorn (1857-1917)-German chemist develops procaine and names the substance "Novocain.""[2]
1914 "the American Journal of Surgery, in 1914, began publication of the Quarterly Supplement of Anesthesia and Analgesia, which endured until 1926."[1]
1914 "Dr. Dennis E. Jackson develops a carbon dioxide (CO2) absorbing anesthesia system, allowing for a patient to re-breathe their exhaled air containing the anesthetic, cleansed of the carbon dioxide, resulting in the use of less anesthetic and the avoidance of waste. Ten years later, Dr. Ralph Waters develops the first simple and easily transportable absorber, known as the "Waters Canister" and the "Waters To-and-Fro.""[2]
1916 "The 1st of 7 editions of The Art of Anaesthesia is published by Dr. Paluel J. Flagg, the 1919-1920 ASA President."[2]
1920 "Arthur Guedel publishes his eye signs of ether anesthesia in the American Journal of Surgery. His Guedel (oral) airway is still used today, and he has been memorialized by the Arthur E. Guedel Memorial Anesthesia Center, San Francisco, CA."[2]
1922 "From Cleveland, Ohio, Current Researches in Anesthesia and Analgesia is launched by Francis H. "Frank" McMechan (1879-1939) as the world's first journal published by an anesthesia society, the International Anesthesia Research Society." [2]
1940 "the American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA) separated from the American Board of Surgery to become an independent entity in 1940 [13], an important step toward professionalization."[1]

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 "The History of Professionalism in Anesthesiology". journalofethics.ama-assn.org. Retrieved 20 August 2018. 
  2. 2.00 2.01 2.02 2.03 2.04 2.05 2.06 2.07 2.08 2.09 2.10 2.11 2.12 2.13 2.14 2.15 2.16 2.17 2.18 2.19 2.20 2.21 2.22 2.23 2.24 2.25 2.26 2.27 2.28 2.29 2.30 2.31 2.32 2.33 2.34 2.35 2.36 2.37 "History of Anesthesia". woodlibrarymuseum.org. Retrieved 20 August 2018.