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Discovery of Anaesthetic

Great Britain · Science / Medicine. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1847Date range
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Chronological records

1847

James Young Simpson4 November 1847

Science / Medicine

Carries out the 1sr succesful experiment to use chloroform as an anaesthetic

Names involved

James Young Simpson

Provenance

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