A major finding by a doctor at the Harvard Medical School may revolutionize the administration of anesthetics to patients awaiting surgery. If current applications of the new discovery prove ...

FOR the past few centuries, curare has been dismissed lightly as being synonymous with the generic name of several arrow poisons of certain South American Indians, but investigation of its ...

Dr. Paluel Joseph Flagg, No. 1 U.S. anesthetist, recently warned his colleagues that in the Army & Navy the delicate work of administering anesthesia is often mishandled. Under present Army conditions ...

To comprehend the particular usefulness of ether one must understand the local problem of psychotherapy that existed at the hospital. The patients treated were, in general, combat soldiers who had ...

Anesthesia keeps patients safely unconscious during surgery—though researchers are still learning exactly how it works. The age of anesthesia began in 1846, when a man named Edward Abbott came to ...