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Focus 1: Dealing with Pain.The development of Anaesthetics
Activity 1: Gaining an...
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Thinking through History at Tallis
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Focus 1: Dealing with Pain.The development of Anaesthetics
Activity 1: Gaining an insightvideoclip
Watch the first 30mins of ScreamThe History of Anaesthetics, or The History of Surgery episode
5, Parts 4 and 5 .Record key developments and keep a note of the factors which contributed to
each development. Include information on attitudes to the developments.
Activity 2: Developments in Anaesthetics Describe, explain and analyse each development in
the path to dealing with the problem of pain. Complete the following table using DC SHP Medicine
p117119 and/ or WB SHP Medicine p110111
Anaesthetic Description Explain and analyse
the effectiveness
Laughing Gas
1799 Humphrey
Davy
1844 Horace
Wells
+ve
ve
Ether
1846 William
Morton
1846 Robert
Liston
+ve
ve
Chloroform
1847 James
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