CHEM 183 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Thomas De Quincey, Orthopedic Surgery, Joseph Priestley

• School: McGill University
• Department: Chemistry
• Course: CHEM 183
• Professor: David Harpp,Joseph Schwarcz

Document Summary

Up until 23. 10: pain/anesthetics, brain chemistry, street drugs, heart medication. Congenital analgesia- small # of people don"t experience pain (sometimes people with. Alzheimer"s or dementia don"t feel temperature but they feel touch) Acute pain- from disease, inflammation or injury- goes away- confined by time. 1/5 ppl suffer from chronic pain and persons> 65 years old. Spinal cord rewires itself when there is pain and pain can become permanent. Trepanation- release demons causing pain in head (drilling hole in skull- very few people survived this) Orthopedic surgeons for many years were males- now 5-10% are female (needed to be strong enough to saw through bones) Anesthetics were needed- badly- raymund lullius spain 1275- possibly used h2so4- perhaps first anesthetic: ether (sweet vitriol) and velerius cordus germany 1540s- possibly used h2so5 too. Ether- volatile boils above room temp- anesthetic used in middle ages.