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  2. History of general anesthesia - Wikipedia

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    The first historical achievement in anesthesia occurred around 4000 BC in ancient Mesopotamia. [5] [10] [32] [33] [34] This was the advent of ethanol (commonly known as drinking alcohol), the first general anaesthetic agent.

  3. List of drugs by year of discovery - Wikipedia

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    Seeds likely used for herbalism have been found in archaeological sites of Bronze Age China dating from the Shang dynasty [10] (c. 1600 BCE–c. 1046 BCE). Over a hundred of the 224 drugs mentioned in the Huangdi Neijing – an early Chinese medical text – are herbs. [ 11 ]

  4. William T. G. Morton - Wikipedia

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    William Thomas Green Morton (August 9, 1819 – July 15, 1868) was an American dentist and physician who first publicly demonstrated the use of inhaled ether as a surgical anesthetic in 1846.

  5. History of Texas - Wikipedia

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    The East Texas Oil Field, discovered on October 5, 1930, is located in east central part of the state, and is the largest and most prolific oil reservoir in the contiguous United States. Other oil fields were later discovered in West Texas and under the Gulf of Mexico.

  6. History of neuraxial anesthesia - Wikipedia

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    His findings were presented a few weeks later at annual conference of the Heidelberg Ophthalmological Society. [7] The following year, William Halsted (1852–1922) performed the first brachial plexus block. [8]

  7. These four Titanic survivors are now buried in Texas. Here’s ...

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    Who were the Titanic survivors who moved to Texas? Albert Edward James Horswill was 33 when he boarded the Titanic in 1912. Horswill was from England and starting working for the White Star Line ...

  8. Anesthetic - Wikipedia

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    Leaves of the coca plant (Erythroxylum novogranatense var. Novogranatense), from which cocaine, a naturally occurring local anesthetic, is derived [1] [2]. An anesthetic (American English) or anaesthetic (British English; see spelling differences) is a drug used to induce anesthesia ⁠— ⁠in other words, to result in a temporary loss of sensation or awareness.

  9. Naming the dead: Hundreds of unclaimed bodies were sent to a ...

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    The list also does not include the names of a few dozen people whose unclaimed bodies were provided to the Health Science Center by other Texas counties. If you believe you have found a loved one ...