Dr. Richard Gillerman's history of anesthesia presentation on Sunday, Nov. 2, at the Stephentown Heritage Center, will cover anesthesia’s first use in the 1840s and its early applications in medicine.

In a monthly column for PBS NewsHour, Dr. Howard Markel revisits moments that changed the course of modern medicine on their anniversaries, like the groundbreaking use of anesthesia on a surgical ...

An anesthesia machine designed by Dr. Raphaël Dubois, built by Charles Verdin (1884), displayed as part of the exhibition 'Once Upon a Time, Anesthesia,' at the Museum of the History of Medicine, ...

Anesthesia was in its infancy when the American Civil War began in 1861. The sheer number of casualties gave surgeons on both sides the opportunity to gain experience with the first two anesthetic ...

The use of the anesthetic agents ether and chloroform was first described in the 1840s by American physicians Crawford Long, William Morton, William Edward Clarke and James Simpson, but anesthesia was ...

Anesthesia might be the greatest medical advancement in human history (seriously, imagine having surgery without it), but ...

The Master of Science in Anesthesia Program at Case Western Reserve University began in 1970, the second anesthesia program of its kind in the nation. The program originally awarded a baccalaureate ...

Anesthesia was a major medical breakthrough, allowing us to lose consciousness during surgery and other painful procedures. Trouble is, we’re not entirely sure how it works. But now we’re getting ...

The International Anesthesia Research Society has launched a $750,000 grant, the largest single grant offered by the society in its 90-year history, according to a release. The Frontiers in Anesthesia ...