anasthetics Flashcards
what happened on the 24th December 1298?
Theodoric of Lucca, Italian physician and bishop, dies. He had used sponges soaked with opium and mandragora for surgical pain relief.
what happened in 1525?
Ether is first used on animals by Paracelsus.
what happened in 1540
Valerius Cordus first synthesizes diethyl ether by distilling ethanol and sulphuric acid
1628
William Harvey publishes the first description of systemic circulation in Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus.
what is the answer to this question?
lel you silly sausage :p
When was the first meeting of the History of Anaesthesia Society?
7th of june 1986
Where was the first meeting of the Society held?
Reading
Who was the first President of the Society?
Dr JA Lee
What sort of wire framed mask is shown on the Society’s logo?
Bellamy Gardner
Who discovered nitrous oxide?
Humphrey Davy
Which British pioneer of anaesthesia was born on 28th February 1825 in Aylsham, Norfolk?
Joseph Clover
In the first successful public demonstration on anaesthesia on 16th October 1846, who was the patient?
Gilbert Abbott
Letheon was a name given to?
Ether
Who in 1846 coined the term anaesthesia to describe insensibility due to the inhalation of ether?
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Who in 1853 administered chloroform to Queen Victoria during the birth of her eighth child?
John Snow
