Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Anesthesiology. 2012 Aug;117(2):238-42. doi: 10.1097/ALN.0b013e31825f01b7.
Although he was not the first to use ether as an anesthetic, it was not until William Thomas Green Morton's demonstration of the efficacy of ether anesthesia that its use spread rapidly throughout the world. Full identities of the first anesthetized patients of William Edward Clarke and Horace Wells are not known, but we are quite certain that Crawford Williamson Long correctly identified James Venable as his first patient to receive anesthesia. Using municipal records, historical accounts, and recent analyses of Morton's unsavory side, we undertook this study to explore three questions. First, we examine how Morton refined the technique of administering anesthesia based on Wells' failed attempt. Second, we describe the circumstances under which Morton encountered his first patient to receive anesthesia. Third, we offer an explanation as to why Morton insisted on bringing along this patient to attend the grand event we celebrate as Ether Day. This is an essay about William Thomas Green Morton and Ebenezer Hopkins Frost.
虽然他不是第一个将乙醚用作麻醉剂的人，但直到威廉·托马斯·格林·莫顿（William Thomas Green Morton）展示了乙醚麻醉的功效，它才在全世界迅速普及。威廉·爱德华·克拉克（William Edward Clarke）和霍勒斯·威尔斯（Horace Wells）首次麻醉患者的完整身份并不为人所知，但我们非常确定克劳福德·威廉森·朗（Crawford Williamson Long）正确地将詹姆斯·维纳布尔（James Venable）确定为他的第一位接受麻醉的患者。我们使用市政记录、历史记载和对莫顿不光彩一面的最新分析，进行了这项研究，以探讨三个问题。首先，我们考察了莫顿如何根据威尔斯的失败尝试改进麻醉技术。其次，我们描述了莫顿遇到他的第一位接受麻醉的患者的情况。第三，我们解释了为什么莫顿坚持要带着这位患者参加我们庆祝的乙醚日这个盛大活动。这是一篇关于威廉·托马斯·格林·莫顿和埃比尼泽·霍普金斯·弗罗斯特的文章。
