2.2 - No Humbug

This week, let's tackle one of those first big problems we talked about: the horrible pain of surgery. Many many doctors and scientists contributed, but eventually the solution is general anesthesia, or making a patient unconscious to avoid the pain. It starts with what were once recreational drugs, but eventually becomes ubiquitous, and is to have great benefits to surgery.Website: http://thehistoryofmedicine.buzzsprout.com/E-mail: [email protected]: https://www.f...