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Intravenous anaesthesia on Turner's High Street

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TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
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Dr Alessia Pannese explores a painted documentation of a relatively little known event in Oxford local history: the first intravenous anaesthesia during this TORCH Bite-Size talk at the Ashmolean Museum LiveFriday
The introduction of anaesthesia in medical practice is generally attributed to American dentist William Morton, who gave a public demonstration in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1846. However, recent research indicates that a crucial attempt was carried out by apothecary Robert Boyle in Oxford almost two centuries earlier

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TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
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Alessia Pannese
Keywords
Intravenous anaesthesia
Medicine
medical history
anasthesia
boyle
Sir Christopher Wren
Department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Date Added: 09/02/2016
Duration: 00:16:43

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