Safety as We Watch: Anaesthesia in Ireland 1847-1998

by Declan Warde, Joseph Tracey, John Cahill

The first operation under anesthesia in Ireland took place 175 years ago when John MacDonnell, a surgeon at the Richmond Hospital, Dublin amputated the arm of Mary Kane on January 1st 1847. This occurred less than three months after the first public demonstration of the use of ether for painless surgery in Boston. Over the next 150 years, anesthesia was to evolve from an apprentice-based craft to become a highly technical specialty, integral not just...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1913934233
• ISBN13: 9781913934231
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Wordwell Books
• Length: 256 Pages