Anaesthetics ancient and modern [electronic resource] : an historical sketch of anaesthesia : lecture memoranda, American Medical Association, Atlantic City, N.J., 1907 (1907)
Wellcome, Henry S. (Henry Solomon), Sir, 1853-1936, Burroughs Wellcome and Company · London : Burroughs Wellcome · leaf 23
nt, or sawn, he may drink half an ounce of mandra-gora with wine; and while he sleeps the member maybe cut off without any pain or sense. Avicenna, the Father of Arabian medicine, givesspecial directions as to the employment of mandra-gora, both as an anaesthetic and a hypnotic; whileAverrhoes,… … ANAESTHETICS, ANTIENT AND MODERN 21 smelled to, and also their juice, that if persisted inthey will deprive the person of his speech. Accordingto Isidorus, a wine of the bark is given to thoseabout to undergo operations, that, being asleep, theyfeel no pain; and Serapion confirms this statementin…
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