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The word “anesthesia” was first used by the Greek philosopher Dioscorides in the first century AD to describe the narcotic effect of the plant mandragora. The word reappeared in the English language in the 1771 Encyclopedia Britannica where it was defined as a “privation of the senses” (1). After the introduction of ether anesthesia into clinical medicine by Morton in 1846, Oliver Wendell Holmes used the word to describe the new phenomenon that made surgical procedures possible.
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Stanski, D.R. (1999). Depth of Anesthesia Monitoring Techniques: An Overview. In: Stanley, T.H., Egan, T.D. (eds) Anesthesia for the New Millennium. Developments in Critical Care Medicine and Anesthesiology, vol 34. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4566-4_10
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