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Hua Tao uses Mafeisan, a wine and herb mix, as an anesthetic for a surgery
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Humphry Davy suggests that nitrous oxide can be used as an anesthetic
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Hanaoka Seishou creates Tsusensan, a general anesthetic
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Henry Hill Hickman explains that carbon dioxide can be used as an anesthetic for animals
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Dr. Crawford Long uses ether as an anesthetic to remove cysts out of a patients neck
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Dr. Horace Wells uses nitrous oxide as an anesthetic to remove a tooth
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William T.G. Morton is the first person to succesfully use ether in a surgery
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James Simpson is the first to use chloroform as an anesthetic during child birth
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Dr. William S. Halstead was the first to use cocaine as a regional anesthetic
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Dr. August Bier coordinates the first use of spinal anesthesia by using cocaine
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Lidocaine
A local anesthetic used to relieve itching, burning and pain from skin inflammations, it can be injected for use as a dental anesthetic but its primary use is for minor surgery. It was synthesized in 1943, by Nils Lofgren. -
Halothane
Halothane, a general anesthetic was created by Charles Suckling. -
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Enflurane and Isoflurane
Enflurane, created in 1963 was developed by Ross terrel. Isoflurane, created in 1965, is primarily used as a veterinary anesthetic was also developed by Ross Terrel
