History of Anesthesia

Author

O. A. Pennisi, Marquette University

Date of Award

5-1938

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Science (BS)

Department

Dentistry

Abstract

Anesthesia is a condition of insensibility to pain, either in part, or in whole. It may be divided into two classes: natural and artificial. The type which has been sought through the ages is the artificial anesthesia which could dull man’s sensibility to physical pain while the surgeon worked his painful but corrective arts upon the body.

Comments

...being a Thesis written for the Degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Recommended Citation

Pennisi, O. A., "History of Anesthesia" (1938). Bachelors’ Theses. 1179.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/bachelor_essays/1179