State of medically controlled temporary loss of sensation or awareness

concept

Early history of the anaesthetic discovery; or painless surgical operations. With letters to and from Sir James Y. Simpson, Dr. Benjamin W. Richardson and Dr. Henry Bennet. Boston versus Hartford / [Robert Hanham Collyer].

Hordeum vulgare (Barley)

Equipment for the application of a local ether anaesthetic.

Anæsthetics : their uses and administration / by Dudley Wilmot Buxton.

Anaesthesia: Ethyl Cholride

Anaesthesia: Nitrous Oxide Cylinder, 1939.

Lucy Baldwin Analgesia Apparatus.

Photograph: 'E.S.O.' Chloroform apparatus.

Anaesthesia: Nitrous Oxide Cylinder, 1870

C. Langton Hewer's Anaesthetic Case.

Operation at University College Hospital 1899

Replica of anaesthesia apparatus used by R. Liston.

Essentials of general anæsthesia / by R.R. Macintosh and Freda B. Bannister ; illustrated by M.C. McLarty.

Signs of anaesthesia including controlled respiration.

The art of anaesthesia / by Paluel J. Flagg.

Historia de la anestesiologia : con contribuciones originales de procedencia lusohispana y latino-americana / J. Antonio Aldrete.

Modern anæsthetic practice / edited by the late Sir Humphry Rolleston and Alan Moncrieff.

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Anesthesia

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Essentials of general anæsthesia / by R.R. Macintosh and Freda B. Bannister ; illustrated by M.C. McLarty.

Signs of anaesthesia including controlled respiration.

The art of anaesthesia / by Paluel J. Flagg.

Historia de la anestesiologia : con contribuciones originales de procedencia lusohispana y latino-americana / J. Antonio Aldrete.

Modern anæsthetic practice / edited by the late Sir Humphry Rolleston and Alan Moncrieff.

Anesthesia

Images from the collections

Images referencing Anesthesia

Works from the collections

Essentials of general anæsthesia / by R.R. Macintosh and Freda B. Bannister ; illustrated by M.C. McLarty.

Signs of anaesthesia including controlled respiration.

The art of anaesthesia / by Paluel J. Flagg.

Historia de la anestesiologia : con contribuciones originales de procedencia lusohispana y latino-americana / J. Antonio Aldrete.

Modern anæsthetic practice / edited by the late Sir Humphry Rolleston and Alan Moncrieff.

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