HIST 3D Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Stertor, Insensibility, Crawford Long
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Warren inhalation of ethereal vapor for the prevention of pain in surgical operations. The discovery: no satisfying substance to achieve the e ect of preventing pain, important alleviation to human su ering. Dr. morton: inhalation of ethereal vapor created a state of insensibility to pain, had employed it in daily practice, the surgery demonstration included a dissection of important nerves, the second patient. Did not feel the pain during the procedure. Forbid its members to conceal any useful discovery. But they decided to do further tests on it, and tested it on more patients, it all went well. Childbed fever: death of a woman after childbirth. On the third day after delivery the woman"s pulse rise. Then die: in paris maternite the death rate of that year was six percent, controlled by insisting cleanliness and isolation, semmelweis observed that two clinics had di erent death rate. Young wives" tale: due to the examination of doctors.
