Morris Samuel D, Morris Alina J, Rockoff Mark A
From the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine and the Archives Program, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Anesth Analg. 2014 Nov;119(5):1186-93. doi: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000000381.
On October 16, 1846 dentist William T. G. Morton successfully demonstrated at the Massachusetts General Hospital that ether could prevent the pain of surgery. For decades afterwards, the administration of anesthesia in the United States was generally relegated to dentists, medical students, junior surgical trainees, or even nonmedical personnel. It was not until the end of the 19th century that a few pioneering physicians began devoting their careers to administering anesthesia to patients, studying ways to make it safer and more effective, and teaching others about its use. One of these individuals was Freeman Allen, who was appointed the first physician anesthetist to the medical staff at the Massachusetts General Hospital and several other major hospitals in Boston. We describe this remarkable man, his contributions to the early development of anesthesiology as a medical specialty, and the true cause of his untimely death.
1846年10月16日，牙医威廉·T·G·莫顿在马萨诸塞州总医院成功证明，乙醚可以防止手术疼痛。在那之后的几十年里，美国的麻醉管理工作通常由牙医、医学生、初级外科实习生，甚至非医务人员负责。直到19世纪末，一些开拓性的医生才开始将他们的职业生涯致力于为患者实施麻醉，研究使其更安全、更有效的方法，并向其他人传授其使用方法。其中一位就是弗里曼·艾伦，他被任命为马萨诸塞州总医院以及波士顿其他几家主要医院的首位医生麻醉师。我们将介绍这位杰出的人物、他对麻醉学作为一门医学专业早期发展的贡献，以及他过早离世的真正原因。
