Surgical history: everything you wanted to know
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The History of Surgery
The first really effective anaesthetic was ether and that was used first in 1842. Most people cite the first official use of ether as being, well not too long out of that 1846 by a dentist in Boston. Chloroform also used around that time, that's first recorded use of that 1847.
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