Important Events In The History of Anesthesia

Hua Tao uses Mafeisan, a wine and herb mix, as an anesthetic for a surgery

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Humphry Davy suggests that nitrous oxide can be used as an anesthetic

Jul 1, 1800

Hanaoka Seishou creates Tsusensan, a general anesthetic

Jan 1, 1804

Henry Hill Hickman explains that carbon dioxide can be used as an anesthetic for animals

Jan 1, 1824

Dr. Crawford Long uses ether as an anesthetic to remove cysts out of a patients neck

Mar 30, 1842

Dr. Horace Wells uses nitrous oxide as an anesthetic to remove a tooth

Dec 1, 1844

William T.G. Morton is the first person to succesfully use ether in a surgery

Oct 16, 1846

James Simpson is the first to use chloroform as an anesthetic during child birth

Jun 2, 1847

Dr. William S. Halstead was the first to use cocaine as a regional anesthetic

Jun 1, 1884

Dr. August Bier coordinates the first use of spinal anesthesia by using cocaine

Jan 1, 1898

Lidocaine

Apr 26, 1943

A local anesthetic used to relieve itching, burning and pain from skin inflammations, it can be injected for use as a dental anesthetic but its primary use is for minor surgery. It was synthesized in 1943, by Nils Lofgren.

Halothane

Feb 2, 1956

Halothane, a general anesthetic was created by Charles Suckling.

Enflurane and Isoflurane

Period: Apr 26, 1963 to Apr 26, 1965

Enflurane, created in 1963 was developed by Ross terrel. Isoflurane, created in 1965, is primarily used as a veterinary anesthetic was also developed by Ross Terrel