The influence of the military on civilian uncertainty about modern anaesthesia between its origins in 1846 and the end of the Crimean War in 1856

Anaesthesia

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 594-601

  Metcalfe, Neil H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; CHLOROFORM; ETHER;

ACHIEVEMENT; AMPUTATION; ANESTHESIA; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ARMY; ARTICLE; DRUG SAFETY; EXPERIENCE; FRANCE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEALTH PROMOTION; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; INHALER; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MILITARY MEDICINE; PUBLICATION; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; WAR;

ANESTHESIA; CRIMEAN WAR; EUROPE; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MILITARY MEDICINE; MILITARY PERSONNEL; RUSSIA (PRE-1917); WAR;

EID: 19944404754     PISSN: 00032409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2005.04183.x     Document Type: Article

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