HLTH 385W Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: John Collins Warren, William Macewen, Chloroform
21 Jul 2018
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Surgeries had to be quick and extremely brutal. Paintings of patients going through what seemed like torture during surgeries. Important to divert a patient"s attention from the pain of surgery. Early incas: chew up coca leaves and dress head wounds about to be incised with saliva. William t. g morton (1819-1868)- founder of modern anesthesia. Looking for a better anesthesia than nitrous oxide (laughing gas) Motive: to make his new method for fitting dentures less painful so that more patients will come to him for the procedure. First applied droplets of ether to his patients" teeth to be extracted--significantly anesthetized. After much passionate experimenting (on his dog, himself, and his 2 dental assistants), he concluded that he needed a more purified vapor of sulphuric. First surgery with general anesthesia with dr. john collins warren. Gilbert abott- 20 year old male with large vascular tumor on his neck.
