Today, October 16, is World Anesthesia Day, a professional holiday for all anesthesiologists and emergency doctors.
On October 16, 1864, a dentist William Thomas Morton, and a surgeon John Warren, performed the first operation using ether as an anesthetic. Since then, Massachusetts General Hospital, where the surgery was performed, is called Ether Dome, and October 16 is celebrated worldwide as Anaestesthesia Day.
This event has changed medicine forever. By reducing patients' pain, doctors were able to perform longer-lasting operations and significantly relieve the suffering that was used to accompany a procedure. Anesthesia is not what it used to be even 50 years ago; it constantly improves to be safer, allowing using it in many fields of medicine, including dentistry and psychiatry.
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