Abstract
Surgery has been limited ever since its beginning due to inadequate asepsis as well as insufficient pain management. As the news of the invention of ether as an anaesthetic reached Europe in 1846 it was initially dismissed as «Yankee hogwash» and «typical North American embellishment». The French physiologist Marie Jean Flourens (1794-1867) issued a warning about its administration by stating: Ether that kills pain also kills life, and this new substance that will conquer surgery will turn out to be terrific as well as terrifying [1].
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Schüttler, J. (2014). The four pillars of anaesthesiology. In 55 Years German Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine: Tradition and Innovation (pp. 89–206). Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68227-1_2
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