"Doctor, will you give me Chloroform or Anesthesia?" This is the often-repeated query by many patients about to undergo an operation. Little do they know that chloroform became obsolete decades ago.

An anesthesia machine designed by Dr. Raphaël Dubois, built by Charles Verdin (1884), displayed as part of the exhibition 'Once Upon a Time, Anesthesia,' at the Museum of the History of Medicine, ...

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The use of the anesthetic agents ether and chloroform was first described in the 1840s by American physicians Crawford Long, William Morton, William Edward Clarke and James Simpson, but anesthesia was ...

We expect to feel no pain during surgery or at least to have no memory of the procedure. But it wasn’t always so. Until the discovery of general anaesthesia in the middle of the 19th century, surgery ...

October 16 is observed as World Anaesthesia Day (Photo: Pixabay/representative image) Every year, World Anaesthesia Day is observed by the global healthcare community to raise awareness of the role of ...

Postsurgical parotitis is a rare postoperative complication characterised by acute, transient unilateral or bilateral ...