Doctors: The Biography of Medicine
Doctors: The Biography of Medicine
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医生:医学传记
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发表时间:
1988
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通讯作者:
S. Nuland
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作者:
S. Nuland
o f the events w as read b efore the A m erican A cadem y o f Arts and Sciences, and then on N ovem ber 9 a fu ll pap er w as given at a m eetin g o f the Boston Society o f M edical Im provem ent, b y H enry Jacob B igelow . T h e paper w as printed in the N ovem ber 18 issue o f the B oston M edical an d Surgical Journal— now an exp en sive co llector’s item , because it carries the first form al published ann oun cem ent o f the discovery o f su rg ical anesthesia. By then Bigelow , w ho w as soon to rep lace John C ollins W arren as the lead in g surgeon o f N ew E n gland, had carried out a n um ber o f experim ents, and a few fu rth er c lin ica l cases had been done. T h e new s o f the great d iscovery spread q u ick ly to Europe, in a w ay that w as as com m on then as it is today. H enry B igelow ’s proud father, Jacob, sent off a letter to his London frien d F ran cis Boott, en closin g a c lip p in g o f h is son’s paper. W ithout w astin g a m om ent a fter rece iv in g the com m unication, Boott arran ged for a dentist n am ed Robinson to extract a tooth o f one M iss Lonsdale in h is study at hom e. W ithin a few m inutes o f the lad y ’s h a vin g recovered from h er slum ber, Boott sent the new s via m essenger to h is co lleagu e Rob ert Liston, the dexterous and darin g Professor o f Surgery at U n iver sity College, London. T h e day bein g Saturday, Liston w aited only for the w eekend to be over b efore carry in g out E urope’s first su rgical operation under ether, on M onday, D ecem ber 19. B efore begin n in g to do the procedure, an am putation, h e is reported to h ave told the assem bled students and assistants, “W e are going to try a Y an kee dodge today, gentlem en, for m akin g m en insensib le.” W hen the final bits o f b an d agin g h ad been com pleted, the great B ritish surgeon, a m em ber o f the sam e m ed ical fa cu lty that had laugh ed at John Elliotson and the m esm erists only e igh t years before, proclaim ed loudly to a ll w h o could h ear h is boom ing voice, “ T h is Y an kee dodge, gen tle m en, beats m esm erism hollow .” Sitting quietly am ong the onlookers w as a n ineteen-year-old un dergraduate w orkin g tow ard h is b acca lau reate degree, Joseph Lister— o f w hom m ore w ill be said later. To g iv e ether the u ltim ate test, Liston n ext used it to pull out the n ail o f a patien t’s great toe, in his words “ one o f the m ost p ain fu l operations in surgery.” H e then w rote to Boott th an kin g h im for his suggestion and describ in g h is “m ost p erfect and satisfactory results”
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82.9
作者:
Starzl,TE;Murase,N;Thomson,A;Demetris,AJ
通讯作者:
Demetris,AJ