For thousands of years, surgery and pain were inseparable companions and operating rooms were as much places of horror as of healing. Only in the last century and a half has the discovery of anesthesia brought relief to patients and enabled surgeons to perform life-saving procedures that would otherwise be impossible.
For thousands of years, surgery and pain were inseparable companions and operating rooms were as much places of horror as of healing. Only in the last century and a half has the discovery of anesthesia brought relief to patients and enabled surgeons to perform life-saving procedures that would otherwise be impossible.