Anesthesia was in its infancy when the American Civil War began in 1861. The sheer number of casualties gave surgeons on both sides the opportunity to gain experience with the first two anesthetic ...

One of the earliest general anesthetics to be used by the medical profession, chloroform, has shed light on a mystery that's puzzled doctors for more than 150 years -- how such anesthetics actually ...

Editor's Note: Shauna Devine, Ph.D., is a historian of Civil War and American medicine. She has a Ph.D. in medical history and currently holds a joint appointment as a research fellow at the Schulich ...

Anesthesia was in its infancy when the American Civil War began. Using case studies of two wounded soldiers, a private and a general, an anesthesiologist reports on its early use. Anesthesia was in ...

THE inquiry which was initiated seven years ago by the Council of the British Medical Associaation into the many-sided problem of chloroform-anaesthesia has added greatly to our knowledge, and ...

Childbirth without an epidural? For many women the idea isn’t pleasant, though before the mid-19th century there was no alternative. An entertaining post on the medical history blog The Chirurgeon’s ...

One of the earliest general anaesthetics to be used by the medical profession, chloroform, has shed light on a mystery that’s puzzled doctors for more than 150 years – how such anaesthetics actually ...