Historical figure in nurse anesthesia

Abstract

Many discoveries were made in the 18th century but some other important ones were during the 19th century , Anesthesia being one of them . William Morgan discovered an anesthetic that became to be used in every surgery and operation . History has it that he made many sacrifices to achieve it . William Morgan aroused the need to find an anesthetic which helped many surgeons . Today advancements have been made from what the father of Anesthesia William Morgan discovered

Introduction

From time immemorial there have been operations or surgeries of very kind

practiced by both medical doctors and traditional healers . Both major and minor surgeries were very painful because nothing had been discovered to relief the pain or cause numbness for these surgeries or operations to be less painful (Karlet 2004 ) notes , With time some pioneers on medicine tried everything and every way to find something or some drug that may relieve the pain . However , the most looked after drug was the one that will induce sleep or unconsciousness at the same time creates lack of sensation . History has it that many early doctors tried many ways until one William Morgan discovered and introduced surgical anesthesia of its kind and it proved working even better than any other anesthesia of that time . This will focus on William Thomas Green Morgan , his achievements , challenges , controversies and successes . It will analyze the impact of his discoveries from his times to the modern times in nursing anesthesia . However (D 'Antonio 1999 notes that , the...