The Development of Concepts of Mechanisms of Anesthesia
Year: 2003
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: Even before Morton’s demonstration of surgical anesthesia in Boston, on October 16, 1846, physicians and scientists had begun to explore mechanisms by which drugs affect the central nervous system. In large part, this was an outgrowth of a revolution in therapeutics that had begun in wake of the Enlightenment. As philosophers and politicians threw out old patterns of religious, political, and economic thought, so physicians discarded a system of medical practice that had been in place for almost fifteen hundred years. Modern medicine began during this era and with it new disciplines such as physiology, pharmacology, and biochemistry (1).
Source: Humana Press eBooks
Authors: Donald Caton, Joseph F. Antognini
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W938137706