World Anaesthesia Day!
William Thomas Green Morton. He is a brave and fearless man. Every anesthesiologist knows his name and his contribution in general anesthesia. Do you remember your first dreadfu l anesthesia? Sure, there was a teacher near you. But anyway it was terrible! But all of us must know another brave fellow. His name was Horace Wells and he was a dentist too. Even more he was the first patient to be operated on under nitrous oxide anesthesia, having his tooth extracted by his associate, John Riggs. T hen he began utilising it on his own patients. Later Horace Wells gave a demonstration to medical students at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston in 1845. However, the gas was improperly administered and the patient cried out in pain . The audience of students in the surgical theatre jeered "humbug". Because of ...