Anesthesia
What was the first successful anesthetic?
Ancient Mesopotamians used a mix of alcohol and opium to bring a patient to a state of unconsciousness for surgery.
How was surgery done before anesthesia?
On a fully awake and aware person, with maybe some brandy.
What color is Ether?
Clear and colorless.
Define Anesthesia.
Insensitivity to pain, especially as artificially induced by the administration of gases or the injection of drugs before surgical operations.
How would surgeons and physicians learn the human body in the early days of surgery. (1800's ish)
Watching dissections of cadavers and occasionally doing their own dissections in amphitheaters. Most textbooks used were unreliable at best.
What is Ether's full name?
Diethyl Ether.
When was modern anesthetic first used?
1846. 200 more points for October. 200 more points for the fourteenth.
Where did most medical schools get their cadavers?
Buying and selling a relatives dead body was taboo, so most institutes would get the hung bodies of murderers, or would buy from grave robbers, who would dig up bodies of recently deceased to sell.
Is Ether flammable or explosive?
Both.
What is the first modern anesthetic called?
Ether.
Why do old graves have fences around them?
To keep out livestock.
What is Ether used for, other than its intended purpose?
Recreational drugs.
Where was the first real anesthetic first used?
Massachusetts General Hospital.
Why would grave robbers strip the cadavers and leave the clothes in the grave?
Because, for a while, no one could even imagine someone would steal a body, so it wasn't against any laws, only stealing the clothes was.
What is the chemical makeup of Ether? (formula)
(C₂H₅)₂O