anesthesia

Curious readers step into the operating room to find out the exact biological mechanisms that make anesthetics work.

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It's hard to imagine not having an anesthetic at the dentist or during a major operation! This comprehensive volume begins with the history of anesthetics, including herbs used in ancient times. It details different kinds of anesthetics, how anesthetics work, when and where they're used, and their complications and side effects. It concludes with some fascinating developments in anesthetics. Readers will gain an appreciation for this pain-reducing innovation, while learning more about the human body and medical technology, aided by instructive images and colorful photographs.

An introduction to anesthetics that discusses their history, how they work, the different kinds, complications, side effects, and more.

Follows the discovery of anesthesia and it's relief to patients enabling surgeons to perform life-saving procedures otherwise impossible.

Explores the invention of anesthesia, discussing the many ways it was used, how it was viewed by the medical community, how it changed understandings of pain, and other related topics.

Traces the discovery of anesthesia in the mid-19th century discussing the contributions of the four men most directly responsible, Crawford W. Long, Horace Wells, William Morton, and Charles Jackson.

Traces the history and development of anesthesia, from the days before anesthetics were discovered, to the modern age and a look at the future.

An account of the work of four doctors involved in the debate over the credit for use of anesthetics in the United States in the mid-nineteenth century.