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 ...

Several men’s lives were ruined by their discoveries. They might have been better off had they never heard of anesthesia.

The first successful public demonstration of the inhalational induction of anesthesia took place in the surgical amphitheater of Massachusetts General Hospital on October 16, 1846. The news spread ...

Australian journalist and novelist Cole-Adams (Walking to the Moon) mingles her own experiences under anesthesia with those of other patients and doctors, producing a personal work that is a mix of ...

A new paper published in Cell Reports, in which researchers work with primates, sheds some light on the question. Researchers ...