The English in fact used an opiate mixture called dwale (if I'm remembering the name correctly) up through the middle ages and into the 16th and probably 17th century. Shakespeare actually briefly references physicians putting their patients to sleep, in terms that make it clear that he and his audience knew this as common practice.
I'd like to compliment Sam on a job very well done. I especially liked the points he made about Woodall's experience of Continental techniques, as well as being a colleague of Harvey. I think, however that he meant to say that Wilkinson succumbed the first year, not Wooton. Wilkinson disappeared from the record almost immediately, while Smith praised Wooton for getting the surviving English through the first summer. According to his American descendants, he then returned to England and married, with some of the family being prominent in British medical circles as late as the 1850's.
Which surgeon's tool was your favorite?
That terrebellum was cool.
Wondering if there were any early types of anesthetic used during procedures.
Probably alcohol I'm guessing.
Opiates were available, as well as some other plant-based analgesics and sedatives.
The English in fact used an opiate mixture called dwale (if I'm remembering the name correctly) up through the middle ages and into the 16th and probably 17th century. Shakespeare actually briefly references physicians putting their patients to sleep, in terms that make it clear that he and his audience knew this as common practice.
Par-a-cel-sus and ter-e-bell-um
I'd like to compliment Sam on a job very well done. I especially liked the points he made about Woodall's experience of Continental techniques, as well as being a colleague of Harvey. I think, however that he meant to say that Wilkinson succumbed the first year, not Wooton. Wilkinson disappeared from the record almost immediately, while Smith praised Wooton for getting the surviving English through the first summer. According to his American descendants, he then returned to England and married, with some of the family being prominent in British medical circles as late as the 1850's.