Anesthetics
- 1275 - Ether discovered by Spanish chemist Raymundus Lullius
and called “sweet vitriol”
- 1500s - Paracelsus experimented (enjoyed?) with the effects
of ether
- 1842 – First used in surgery by Crawford Williamson Long,
MD, of Jefferson, Georgia, U.S.1
- 1846 - Dr. William T.G. Morton a dentist, anaesthetized a patient
for surgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital
- 1929 – discovery of cyclopropane
- 1956 – discovery of halothane in England
Arsenic
Mercury
PCBs
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