General Anaesthesia

Can you imagine how miserable even minor surgery would be without general anaesthesia?

Re-enactment of the first public demonstration of general anaesthesia by William T. G. Morton on 16 October 1846, in the Ether Dome at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston

Wikipedia describes general anaesthesia as “a method of medically inducing loss of consciousness that renders a patient unarousable even with painful stimuli.” Amen.

The effect is a…