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Anesthesia pioneer Crawford W. Longwas was the first to use anaesthesia during an operation, giving it to a boy before excising a cyst from his neck
- Historical anaesthetic techniques
- acupuncture
- hyperventilation
- alcohol
- Herbal preparations
- opium
- cannabis (yes, cannabis)
- scopolamine from datura and coca
- hyoscyamine from mandrake and henbane
- Tsusensan from datura and aconitum (1804)
- Chemicals
- diethyl ether (1842)
- nitrous oxide ("laughing gas", 1844)
- chloroform (1853)
