Abstract
Modern anaesthesia in South Africa goes back to the year 1847, when Dr. Guybon Atherstone, assisted by his father (also a doctor), amputated the gangrenous leg of the Deputy Sheriff of Grahamstown, a village then 3 months away by ox waggon, the only form of transport, from Cape Town. This was but 8 months after Morton first administered ether in Boston, in the United States. Atherstone produced his ether from sulphuric acid and alcohol and administered it by means of a “hubble-bubble” type of apparatus he had constructed, which resembled a Turkish narghile.
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Grant-Whyte, H. (1985). Review of Modern Anaesthesia in South Africa. In: Rupreht, J., van Lieburg, M.J., Lee, J.A., Erdmann, W. (eds) Anaesthesia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69636-7_45
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