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The discovery of anaesthetic
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- 1what is the chemical given to a patient to reduce the pain?Anaesthetic
- 2In 1799 who accidentally discovered that inhaling nitrous oxide made you less aware of pain?Humphrey Davy
- 3who was Horace Wells?A dentist in 1844 who used nitrous oxide when extracting teeth.
- 4What were some of the problems in using ether?1) it sometimes made patients vomit.
2) it tended to irritate the lungs of patients so that they coughed even when they were unconscious
3) tended to produce very deep sleep which could last for days - 5In c1850 who discovered that chloroform could be a better anaesthetic than ether?James Simpson
- 6why did the Victorians not want pain relief?because they were very religious and some felt that pain relief was interfering with gods plan
- 7what did John Snow develop in 1848?an inhaler that regulated the dosage and reduced the number of death
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