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Dead Guys
What did they do? Does anyone care?
Dead Guys Name | What Did They Do? |
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Dr. John Snow | First Anesthesiologist |
Joseph Priestly | Described how to produce and store Nitrous Oxide |
Crawford Long | Removed tumor from neck while being the first paid ether anesthetist |
Edmund Andrews | First to realize that we need to give Oxygen during anesthesia, also a grave robber |
Alice Magaw | Mother of Anesthesia |
Sister Mary Bernard | First Nurse Anesthetist |
William Morton | Invented first ether vaporizer |
Sir James Simpson | Stated that pain came from tissue damage or potential damage, used chloroform during childbirth |
Humphrey Davy | Thought Nitrous Oxide Would be good if procedure was not going to cause too much bleeding |
Horace Wells | Dentist who used Nitrous Oxide on himself, also taught Nitrous Oxide anesthesia |
Valerius Cordus | “Father” of accurate preparation of ether |
Samuel Colt | Prepared Nitrous Oxide to pay for patent on revolver |
Agatha Hodgins | Founder of AANA |
Oliver Wendell Holmes | Defined Anesthesia as “sleeplike state” |
Jean Baptiste Andre Dumas | Perfected and published work on chloroform |