3 - History of Anaesthesia Society

More documents

Recommendations

Info

he seems as dead'. It is clear from this that a highly controlled munt of alcohol was consum3d so as to intoxicate the mtient up to the third h&. Only at this stage was the operation carried out-Nevertheless, because of the shortcomings of these practices, anaesthstic sc:iames .{ere developed in Ayurverla rne.jicine. Theso anaesthetics were generally described as Sarmrahinis. However, t3e descriptions of tCle anaesthetics used has never been explicitly reported in the respctive Sanskr~t literature. Our information has to be gathered Erom an,xdotal llookv such as Bhoja-Pram which is a collection of material abut the reign of Bhoja Raja. King Rhoja, son OF King Sudhul of Dhara (situated near the present city of Ujjain in the State of Madhya Pradesh) ruled in the 10th Century AD. Details are given of an interesting surgical operation which w?s performed on the Raja who rms suffering from an excruciating win in the head. A11 available help was applied but in vain and his condition became critical. Just then, two brother physicians arrive? in nhar and they were duly called in. After carefully examining the mtient, thrty held that, unless surqic.~lly treated, no relief could be ~ssibly afforded to the royal ptient. They adninistsred an anaesthetic (Samhini) called Mohchuran to render him insemsitive, and when !ie was caplet.ely under the influence of the drug, they trephined his skull, rmved t9e mlignant portion of the brain which was the origin of t%e problem, closed and stitched up the incision and awlied a h?alinq tz3l.m to the rmund. Then they administered an antidote, Sanjiwini, to t4e patient who thereupn regain& consciousness and felt quit5 at ease. fie b k of Ballala Pandit, written in Sanskrit abut ,327AD was translated by Kedannath Sham into Hindi in 1970. ?he author knew ahout chloroform and indicated that the sleep pwder Mohchuran is a chlorofom-like agent. Sanjiwani is still well-buwn in India tcday. According to ancient stories, it was fist brought by Hanuman Erom the Himalayan mountains to resuscitate King Lawran who was injure? in the battle of Ramyana which took place about 2000BC in Sri Lanka. In current times, extensive efforts are king made in tha West to rediscover the old knowledge of Ayurveda medicine by mans of the ancient literature mentioned abve and from the Vaidyas, who are Ayunredic physicians in India. We are fortunate to have t'7e Ayurveda Health Centre for Europe in the Netherlands. We recantly asked a Vaidyan physician at this centre about ansesthesia in Ayurvedan mdicine. He confirmed what we had discovered: one techniclue is psychoanaesthesia which involves talking to the ptients and telling t'lem that the operation will not be painful; another form is alcohol anaesthesia. The Vaidya also knew about the sleeppowder mentioned above lxlt said that the correct name was not Mohchuran, as written i.l the ancient text, but Mohchuma. -a H.Schelenz. Geschichte der Phamzie. 1704 H.H.Wilson. On the Medical and Surgical Sciences of the Hindils. 1823. J.F.Royle. Rn Essay on the Antiquity of Hindu medicine. 1.737. T.A.Wi.se. A Camnentary on the Hindu System of Medicine. lr145. Stenzler. Zur Geschichte der Indischen Melizin. 1946.
John Iiunter (1729-1793), scientist, naturalist and surgeon has been adopted by the Royal College of Surgeons of &gland (RCS) in the role ahmst of a patron saint. His collection of specimens forms the basis of the Hunterian Museum and a large number of his writings and drawings are held in the College Library, whilst the research and educational function of the College constitutes the Hunterian Institute. John Hunter met his future wife Anne (1742-1921) whilst he and her father Robert Home were serving as army surgeons during the military campaigns in Portugal. Though very different in character and personality, their mrriaqe oms a happy and successful one. John was outspken irascible and wholeheartedly devoted to his studies of natural history and human disease whilst Anne was intellectual, full of delicacy and charm and noted b3th for her poetry and as a society hostess. Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) was for mst of his life court composer to the Comts of Esterhazy whose estates
Page 3: Zhe History of Anaesthesia Society
Page 6 and 7: PARTICIPANTS AT TllE RO1TERDAM MEET
Page 8 and 9: haerrorrhage and the administration
Page 10 and 11: Pimot did not believe that dentists
Page 12 and 13: was visited by mny friends, colleag
Page 14 and 15: increased. In haloperidol the neuro
Page 16 and 17: 9000 times as potent as pethidine a
Page 18 and 19: Flacke JW et al. Comparison of morp
Page 22 and 23: 1 Landon, H.C.Robbins Ed. The Colle
Page 24 and 25: dogs with a cl system. His reprt of
Page 26 and 27: the times when carbon dioxid is mst
Page 28 and 29: 'The salient characteristic of the
Page 30 and 31: Griffith, well imderstood the imprt
Page 32 and 33: Professor J J de 'Lange, Drs M A Cu
Page 34 and 35: Mter twenty mnuted he carried out a
Page 36 and 37: Dr J M Hot-ton (Cambridge) Denis Br
Page 38 and 39: -mtient, by mans of a cylinder fitt
Page 40 and 41: Professor H Reinhold (73nlssels) Hi
Page 42 and 43: In the early pst-mr perid the neces
Page 44 and 45: Most anaesthetics were still given
Page 46 and 47: Drs M Goerig, W Pothmann, H Polcar
Page 48 and 49: Figure 2. E@rthegs Device (1925) me
Page 50 and 51: Cohen EN et al. Occupational diseas
Page 52 and 53: Drs J Samarutel, A Yivic, E Kross,
Page 54 and 55: than 170 in 1991. TCIe EARS holds r

3 - History of Anaesthesia Society

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

Delete template?

Save as template?