The Brutal History of Anesthesia

[@matthewmerchant2038]

As a nurse who constantly works with post-surgery patients, particularly overnight, I am so privileged to see the benefits of modern medicine every day. THE PAST WAS THE WORST

[@mc.yomyom8481]

Iam working in elderly Health Care in Germany

[@libertydensinger3583]

Nursing student here, absolutely! I was born blind due to weak ocular muscles and have had three surgeries to correct it. Two were in my first year of life. It would have been impossible to have done without drugs.

[@YourLordshipBalthazar]

I had what is now considered a routine operation/surgery just before Christmas. I'd hate to think how painful it would have been without general anesthetic and the post surgery fentany (how amazing is fentanyl for pain relief 😅). Modern medicine is amazing as are the nurses & Drs who care for the patients so thank you for hard work 😁

[@michaeladolph7134]

Same here at a children's hospital

[@st0nedpenguin]

I can't even imagine how horrible it'd be for the medical team, on top of how HORRIBLE it'd be for the patient. My greatest thanks to you and the other healthcare professionals, both on this comment and around the globe.

[@terryenby2304]

As someone who has had a few surgeries and several other local procedures, as well as long term painkillers… I am SO GRATEFUL for living in the present!!

[@xenos_n.]

As Simon says, the past is terrible.

[@Intercaust]

Same here. Sciatica ruined my life until I got surgery.

[@markzuckergecko621]

I was having a tooth removed when I was a kid, with local anesthesia, and the dumbass dentist started tugging at the wrong tooth. It was horrific, I felt everything. Luckily I started yelling as best I could with a hand in my mouth, and she stopped. But yea, that really sucked.

[@RejectedInch]

@@markzuckergecko621 That happened to me too, the anesthetic didn't work and the dentist pulled out the tooth regardless of my screams. It was just a baby tooth ( " is baby tooth is not gonna hurt" he said), but it DID hurt like hell. The second memory is my mom reaching the dentist's collar hissing " hurt my dauther again and you won't walk out of here" . Old days . Thankfully gone days.

[@badluck5647]

@@xenos_n. "The past is the worst"

[@Bigbadredg14nt]

The fact that anyone ever survived surgery kinda says alot about humans and their resilience.

[@alnjgove8uifjbkelbfg]

We have a lot to thank our ancestors for .

[@Goddamn_heisenberg]

True, I’m just imagining the pain wild animals go through; just imagine your a animal that barely survived a attack from a predator, now you have to continue living with those Injuries

[@Slaughtermelons99]

The next Simon Whistler channel should be Simongraphics. A Simon Whistler channel that covers all other Simon Whistler channels

[@jimcappa6815]

Is it wrong that I’m laughing at the idea of surgical patients being knocked out Bugs Bunny style? The past was the worst!

[@samnieves8158]

I laughed too, but I am also deeply grateful for everyone who has participated in the progress of medicine, including those poor people who had to get bonked in the head

[@ronangregory4499]

Funny how almost 200 hundred years later, we still enjoy watching people make fools of themselves on laughing gas. We just watch it on the internet now instead of on stage

[@QueenetBowie]

I’d love to know what people will look back on 100 years from now and see that we did that is absurd…

[@deathbycheese850]

Nitrous oxide doesn't work on me for some reason. During my medical training, my instructor wanted us to experience what the patients would feel after using it. One guy started crying and said he felt drunk, and one of the girls just felt stoned. I felt nothing. I also have a high tolerance for opiates and general anaesthetics, like propofol.

[@duncancurtis1758]

Done best by Sellers and Lom 1976 he's pulled the wrong tooth!

[@HVS-gk7oo]

@@QueenetBowie Puberty blockers for gender non conforming children.

[@hectorsmommy1717]

As someone who gets colonoscopies every 3 years I am super happy with things like Propofol and other fast acting/short half life anesthetics. I go under, the doctor does his thing, 20 minutes later I wake up and have no hangover or nausea so I can eat a big meal as soon as I get home.

[@GeneralKenobiSIYE]

I dunno, I've always gotten Versed but I recall being given Propofol when the tried to stop the heavy bleeding in my small bowel using a graft-stent. They tried three times, but they did not work so they had to give me Remicade in two week intervals rather than the usual scheduling.

[@hectorsmommy1717]

@@GeneralKenobiSIYE My Mom always had bad reactions to Versed. It is great that there is a variety of anesthetics so if one doesn't work or can't be tolerated they have others. As I age and get more procedures done, I have more and more respect for anesthesiologists. The days of the "gas passer" are long gone and a good one will make the surgeon look even better.

[@Neflhim]

"...a famous user was Marcus Aurelius." I've never seen a more stoned statue in my life.

[@lulujanuary]

😂😂😂

[@michelleheidler983]

When I had a c section the post surgery pain medication they gave me basically didn't work and was wayyyy to small of a dose. After the spinal wore off I could feel EVERYTHING. I literally screamed and cried for almost 24 hours until the doctor came in the next day and changed/increased my pain medication. It was horrific and traumatizing.

[@mellie4174]

I'm so sorry!!

[@mikeseier4449]

Boo hoo…

[@jc.1191]

So sorry!

[@jaybee9269]

I had a similar experience. I pushed my PCA button 400 times the night after my back surgery…(it would only work about every 20 minutes.)

[@theclownsystem9429]

@@mikeseier4449 Nice try, troll lol

[@justandy333]

Every now and again the conversation comes up among my friends about "How great it would be to live in the past, another era, away from the toxic world we live in today" I just think F**K NO!! I cannot imagine a world without Anesthetics, not to mention the rest of the medical science world. I just had a procedure to get rid of a Kidney Stone without a single incision using high energy shockwaves to smash the bugger up. So no need for surgery at all! I just can't imagine having to pass a 6mm stone without pain relief or have it surgically removed without Anesthesia. The options for people in the past were pretty grim. I'm so so grateful for being born into a world where Anesthetics are available.

[@ignitionfrn2223]

2:45 - Chapter 1 - Early anaesthesia 4:25 - Chapter 2 - Anaesthesia in asia 6:15 - Chapter 3 - Nitrous Oxide 8:30 - Chapter 4 - Ether 12:30 - Chapter 5 - Chloroform 14:40 - Chapter 6 - Modern anaesthetics

[@jayare3015]

1:53 - Randy Marsh

[@Jennifer-sh9uh]

Into the shadows is a Tangent free channel. Lol

[@Angel_1394]

Glad these people went through what they did to figure this out. Glad we aren't dealing with this now.

[@anenticingsquid9219]

Having just had a Cyst removed in the back of my head, I am singing the praises of all those who pioneered anesthetics. That needle hurt like a SOB but I couldn't imagine them slicing my head open with a knife and squeezing the juice out without it. Although the worst pain was the $2600.00 bill I got for an operation that took one person less than 10 minutes...

[@dawnprodVT]

Tell me your American without telling me your American...

[@LacieWhy]

I just felt the pain from the bill too. 😫

[@poizunman75]

As Simon says on Business *ahem* Brain Blaze: "The past was the worst."

[@drealynne4256]

Anaesthesia is one, if not the top three most important things ever discovered. I don't wish having surgery with no anaesthesia on my worst enemy. Even animals deserve to be pain free when being operated on. I can't imagine how horrid it was going through that all while awake and feeling everything being done to your body. Thank you to all the folks along the way who helped discover and test different forms of anesthesia. I'm beyond grateful. Healthcare would not be as advanced as it is today if it wasn't for them paving the way. Give props where it's due! 💕🙏

[@jeremy8189]

Can you imagine getting choked tf out and THEN getting a limb removed? Lmao ... the past was so doo doo flakes 😄

[@rolandtowen2595]

As a child, I was deathly afraid of needles, so I had multiple cavities drilled and filled without any anesthesia. I am now very grateful for novocaine, but my dentist will never let me forget lol.

[@hectorsmommy1717]

My dentist was old school and didn't believe in anesthesia for fillings. Apparently I screamed and squirmed so much that he broke down and started giving it to me.

[@Carewolf]

As a child the dentists never used anesthesia on me. It isn't so bad if the dentist is skilled. I found as an adult, most dentist are too careless to be any good without anesthesia, it really only works if they have experience with pain feedback. And of course are not doing anything deeper, that does require it.

[@ahayesm]

I still have huge issues as an adult but strong benzos work for me. A combination of nitrous + ativan + locals is good enough I don't really feel near the level of hesitation about dental work that I used to.

[@ChristmasLore]

Even these days, some dentists are like "now, we don't need the anesthesia shot for this, do we?" I always answer " actually yes, we do"!

[@TomMinnick]

My grandmother used to have the dentist (family friend) put her under for cleanings. lol

[@purcascade]

I have a very strong reaction to anesthesia. It takes hours for me to wake up enough to leave so I can sleep more at home, and it usually makes me sick to my stomach too. Let me tell you with full sincerity that vomiting with fresh holes where my wisdom teeth used to be was not one of my favorite experiences.

[@kristita_888]

Oh, you poor thing! That must have been horrific! 😣

[@madokami03]

Both my mom and I apparently have insane reactions to opioid based pain killers, so idk if it was just the pain killer meds, or both them and the anesthesia, but the same thing happened to me after getting my wisdom teeth out. And I didn’t realize the pain killers they gave me were making me sick, so I was taking them and throwing up for like three days before I realized they were the problem😭

[@oceanmango]

I had a relative (never met them, died before i was born) who passed away from anesthesia. Now I have to get things like wisdom teeth taken out at the hospital in case i end up having a reaction too so that’s fun

[@AidanPatko]

The fact that we still don’t really know how it works is enough to terrify me today, let alone what it just have been like back then.

[@venera13]

I like how you talked about reaserch and experiments in other countries and areas. A lot of history of anesthesia videos tend to be western centric and completely ignore the contributions and discoveries of other people from the middle east and east aisa.

[@anonymousrex5207]

Ah yes, the "anesthesiologist" of the good old days was the guy who could swing a wooden mallet the right way... sign me up.

[@QueenetBowie]

Another good reminder that it’s great to be alive in the 21st century.

[@meridien52681]

Believe me, after 2 spinal fusions and scoliosis repair, I'm eternally grateful I didn't have to feel any of it. Now, post-surgical pain, that's a whole different animal there. I was discharged with inadequate pain control meds and I thought I was gonna die. I can only SMH at what early surgery must have been like without anesthesia!

[@SigEpBlue]

1:48 "...45-pound scrotal tumor..." Hold up.

[@Juliankb39]

Immediately thought of randy from south park hauling his nuts around in a wheelbarrow and saying he was disabled

[@nmxsanchez]

I'm very grateful to live after this was figured out. Dealing with some surgeries during recovery is painful enough. I can't imagine feeling everything DURING the surgery. I had two thoracotomies (don't look it up if you're faint of heart), one with a rib resection (removal), plus numerous chest tubes. Going through that while conscious would likely kill you just from pain alone.

[@LuckyAnole]

I've had nitrous oxide 4 times. The first was for a dislocated knee and it did absolutely nothing. The next time was when I was in childbirth and oh my god it was fantastic. Turned out that's the only thing that could help relieve pain during my labours, lol.

[@theclownsystem9429]

I've only had it once at the dentist. I now understand why it's called laughing gas lmao

[@diyeana]

I feel like "The Past Was the Worst" is really missing here.

[@KlaximumSkroeft]

Only a minute and a half in and I'm physically cringing and writhing on the couch. Damn, this is a good channel. I love it when Simon goes for gravitas. He does it so well.

[@dickiemcgeezacks9458]

The accent helps.

[@boomerharris2965]

To quote some bald man with an amazing beard on some criminal podcast: THE PAST WAS THE WORST

[@ChaserHati]

Had my wisdom teeth removed with only local anesthesia. Even if there no point (edit: pain) , my neck hurt from how hard the dentist was struggling to pull them out lol

[@johncox2865]

Exactly. I didn’t hear the term ‘oral surgery’ until I was a lad of 30 years or older..

[@liquidocelot5976]

Worst part of local anaesthetic is you can still hear everything going on lol

[@a.m928]

A good dentist should be able to remove it without having to struggle. I barely noticed and the doc shouldnt need hurt ut neck.

[@Courier_Jackalope]

I have had two cesarean sections and I can best describe them as feeling like someone is doing dishes in your abdomen. Thank goodness for spinal blocks. That being said, I never took anything harder that prescription ibuprofen and acetomeophen when post surgery. To me, that was nothing compared to how uncomfortable late pregnancy was.

[@jc.1191]

Doing dishes. 🤣 Interesting take

[@IO-zz2xy]

Thanks for this interesting presentation, however, you did not mention an early attempt at anaesthesia by inserting a strong cigar in the rectum. Apparently the toxicity of tobacco/nicotine caused numbing and partial paralysis in the lower extremities, but could also kill the patient due to nicotine poisoning. Regards from South Africa

[@badgoat666]

Interesting fact. Give that man a cigar. (Orally)

[@RealGrooveRandom]

You getting up & walking away at the end was a perfect ending to this video Simon! I know I felt exactly the same & went to pour myself a stiff drink. Great content as always dude! ✊🏾😏

[@burquebandit7169]

'the fastest knife in the west end' Fucking legend 🤣

[@spacesaurus7563]

I had a minor surgery of having a few nails permanently removed and the anesthetic didn't work on 2 of the toes. I cannot even imagine going through an amputation without anesthesia.

[@ChristmasLore]

Most likely, for an amputation, your brain itself makes you pass out. It can only take a given amount of pain.

[@user-dg9pu4pe9d]

Very interesting. Not nearly as dark as the atrocities that are often topics on this channel or the Casual Criminalist. Be thankful everyday that medicine is more advanced and continues to evolve.

[@chasewaldschmidt494]

Being in the operating room I've often thought about how we came to this point in anesthesia, its always interesting to watch the sedation and intubation process

[@pr0xZen]

It seems fitting, that the era of 'modern' anesthesia was sparked by a major pain in the Fanny.

[@kevinmcqueenie7420]

This comment means a totally different thing depending on whether you speak American or British English!

[@pr0xZen]

@@kevinmcqueenie7420 Going for double entendres, triple is a bonus 😅

[@Persianbookworm]

"i feel like the sound of a harp" what a mood

[@jazzerzzz22]

Great topic, great upload. Thanks for never ending content Simon!

[@cmconley33]

PACU (recovery room) nurse here. It might interest everyone here to know that currently, we don’t really know how the most common general anesthesia gas (Sevoflurane) produces its effects-just that it does. It also has some obvious cardiac effects, as it is not at all uncommon to see a patient’s blood pressure drop profoundly after induction via IV propofol and subsequently switching over over to gas once the patient has been intubated. A good deal of the time, the amount of gas required to produce adequate anesthesia requires the nurse anesthetist (an ICU nurse who has obtained graduate education in anesthesia) to support the patient’s blood pressure with either vasopressors or inotropes (medications that cause the blood vessels to narrow and the heart to pump harder). On top of that, general anesthesia gases only produce a lack of awareness, but they do not really relieve pain. Therefore, the CRNA typically gives small does of opiates during surgery to manage pain. I take care of patients once they have woken up and are breathing on their own-but also, occasionally, a patient that is still being ventilated (have a machine breathing for them).

[@Tully_23_32]

I've had my appendix rupture where i was minutes away from death before they got me on the table. Honestly with the excruciating pain of having your appendix rupture that i wouldn't have cared if i was under or not with the ripping my stomach open down the middle of my stomach from just under where my undies sit up to my bellybutton. I would've ripped my own stomach open & cleaned my insides out getting rid of as much poison as possible. That's how bad the pain was, it was torture & it took me 2yrs to get over & i wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy

[@bluebelle8823]

"I feel like the sound of a harp" okay then mate. But somehow that actually makes sense. Yet another reminder the the past was the worst. I'm so thankful for the suffering of our forbears so we get the relative safety of current practices. (Let alone my epilepic side which there are no words for that horror show)

[@badluck5647]

I got a bill for anesthesia for elective surgery, and now I wish they gave me a boot strap and a shot of whiskey like the Civil War times.

[@dieafrikaansbear8995]

Ahhh you must be American…..

[@PickIeweasel]

@@dieafrikaansbear8995 my thoughts exactly

[@ZAV1944]

contrary to popular belief, anesthesia was in general use during the Civil War.

[@badluck5647]

@@dieafrikaansbear8995 Yes, but I doubt Europeans get free cosmetic surgery without a horrific injury. Insurance doesn't cover it.

[@TonyDootjes]

@@badluck5647 Depends on the situation, if you need a breast reduction because your back hurts I think thats covered in most countries

[@rickoom3081]

I was cracking up over the choke hold and the wooden bowl techniques 😂

[@rogerpenske2411]

I am loving the fire side chat motif with Simon. Perhaps the addition of a cardigan sweater and Simon smoking a pipe would add to the atmosphere

[@Kblmquist]

I work in healthcare assisting in procedures like fistulagrams. We had one patient that was on many opioid medications and our anesthetics didn’t work. We used lidocaine to help block the pain but it still wasn’t a pleasant experience for the patient. I am still traumatized by her crying. I can’t imagine assisting in an unmedicated procedure all the time like that.

[@becky2235]

That's frightening surely if someone has a opioid tolerance there are other options? What was the procedure you had to do? P.s. I'm a nursing assistant

[@Kblmquist]

@@becky2235 yes, with this patient if I remember correctly her chart had a lot of opioids, but when we confirmed her medication she said she wasn’t take most or all of them. I wish patients understood we aren’t going to send you to jail, we just need to know to avoid this type of situation. I’m a CMA, but changed jobs and now work in home healthcare. I love my job.

[@CarolynsArtAdventures]

I work at Mass General--the Ether Dome (the operating theater where that first operation was performed) is now historical landmark, with a small exhibition of relevant artifacts, like surgery tools.

[@charlesjmouse]

Some 'happy' thoughts: Once upon a time I was an anaesthetist, and a pretty good one, before I jumped ship to General Practice in the hope a more civilised job would allow me to occasionally see my wife - hah, how wrong I was! Thankfully as it turns out I retired on medical grounds (stress) just before COVID became a thing. Unwell and penniless, but at least I get to see my wife and I'm not being worked like a dog anymore. Anyway... Drager, the company that makes what are probably today's best aesthetic machines, started out by making gas chambers for the Nazis.

[@JohnDrummondPhoto]

I laud the development of anesthetics, having had multiple dental procedures, an endoscopy, and a colonoscopy. However, once a dental anesthetic left my chin numb for a month. I think the needle struck a nerve. Another time, when my wife had a colonoscopy and I was with her in the recovery room, we heard panicked voices rising in the OR. Another patient was undergoing a colonoscopy when her heart stopped. Luckily, they were able to revive her. I always wondered if she was told later what had happened.

[@iktmamafo2133]

This video goes well with Count Dankula's "Mad Lads" about Dr. Liston.

[@magnusbruce4051]

Medicine in the 19th Century is such a fascinating topic. We did it fairly in depth in school as part of our "medicine through time" module (we started looking the neolithic period and then went through time to pretty much the 1960s ish). You start the century with no anaesthetic, no germ theory, no aseptic surgery and you end up with something that could be recognisable by today's standards. Even x-rays were sort of a thing by the very end of the century. Go forward another 25-30 years after that and you get another few huge leaps forward from WWI (in particular, advancements in cosmetic surgery) and the discovery of penicillin.

[@graye_area8344]

I've had surgery corrections under location anesthesia, and like Fanny Burney from the intro, I still remember the feeling of the scalpel scraping my ribs.

[@VorpalBunnysRevenge]

As a receiver of modern relief I can tell you how wonderful it is to be saved modern medicine.

[@duncancurtis1758]

Rowlandson did a hilarious 🤣 cartoon in 1792 of a man having his leg sawn off. Without anesthetic.

[@fritsgerms3565]

Michael Mosley made a documentary of medical history. One episode was dedicated to anaesthesia. Incredible history. Most doctors self tested.

[@grabo917]

I got my beard blaze today, super excited about it. Thanks Simon!

[@chrisyanover1777]

Something tells me when Simon records his videos he yells out before recording "Time me gentleman, time me!".

[@BennyColyn]

I'd call this more "out of the shadows" than into the shadows. If it wasn't for modern anesthesia I wouldn't be around anymore.

[@newjargon1697]

That was a very informative and concise video. Thank you, Sir.

[@atyantabhava345]

You missed quite an important part of ancient surgery. Sushruta, who lived in Varanasi, India somewhere between 600 BC to 1000 BC. He was supposed to have used wine and possibly cannabis indica as anaesthetic. His work was translated and has been found as far as China and the middle east in the following centuries.

[@khurch7564]

Waking up to Whistle Boy's Fact Face is a good start to any day.

[@DMSrunit]

The history of gas use and collection is something I haven’t thought about to much before

[@grzegorzswist]

Finally a channel without begging for subs and likes.

[@st0nedpenguin]

As a Northerner I am programmed at a genetic level to hate anything Southern, but your voice and accent are so relaxing it feels like a guilty pleasure.

[@loupiscanis9449]

Thank you

[@jesuschrist9513]

Hey Simon, could you do a video on the collapse of Yugoslavia/the Yugoslav Wars? Weird point in history where a titan of 6 nations split up. 2 went peacefully, 2 initially went peacefully and 1 tried to stop them all violently. Then the 2 initially peaceful ones went just as crazy as the 1 bad one and it became a mexican standoff of Fascism, genocide and war crimes. Also take a lot at the music from the wars. There's literally Serbian diss tracks towards Bosnians both simulatenously denying they committed war crimes while also saying that if they did hypothetically do it then they'd definitely do it again. Mad shit.

[@louisfeldman2790]

That’s why the anesthesiologist is one of the highest paid personnel working in hospitals.

[@Chris-rh9ej]

Lol the testicle tumor in a wheelbarrow sounds like that South Park episode.

[@larlaify]

I've had many surgeries both awake and put asleep. Never had any problems until I had to stay awake for brain surgery. Hearing the drill go through my skull messed me up. I couldn't feel any pain but I still had to be fully conscious. Hopefully in the future people will not need to be completely awake for it.

[@littleshopofelectrons4014]

I had surgery in the late 1950s when I was a young boy. Ether was used and I vividly remember it because it smelled so bad. They placed a wire screen with gauze on my face. They then started dripping ether on the mask. They told me that it would smell bad and to just blow it away. Of coarse that was just to make me breathe even more deeply. Eventually I passed out. It was not a pleasant experience.

[@BloodSweatandFears]

I’ve had a major surgery for pneumonia in my right lung. They had to put in two tubes into my lung through my ribs. It was unbelievably painful when I woke up. I am SOOOO grateful I was born in the time I was!

[@jacquelynsmith2351]

I've had 2 surgeries that I've had to be knocked out for, and many other incidents that I wish I'd been knocked out for. I'm glad to be alive now and not in the past. THE PAST WAS THE WORST!

[@nomdeplume7537]

I've had nitrous-oxide once ... ONCE I LOATHED it. I couldn't handle that feeling of "going under"

[@probusthrax]

I think your already great videos are getting even better!

[@TheLoneTerran]

Having had to endure a root canal without anesthesia because insurance wouldn't pay for it and I couldn't afford the $500+ price tag, I unfortunately can empathize with people pre-anesthesia. What a golden age.

[@RainAngel111]

Very frustrating that one of the safest drugs, nitrous oxide was ignored for years in favour of more dangerous chemicals, because of one demonstration where they didn't use enough.

[@bradlevantis913]

Great timing. Just passed my Entonox exam yesterday

[@connormodin5731]

I was put under during my wisdom tooth removal and can remember coming to part way through. Even though I couldn’t feel any pain I got to feel one of the teeth coming out of the gum

[@engineeringvision9507]

You weren't fully under, it's awake sedation, you just fell asleep. Completely different drug (midazolam). It doesn't just make you sleepy it also makes you calm and relaxed.

[@connormodin5731]

@@engineeringvision9507 well that’s pretty awesome, thanks for the info

[@engineeringvision9507]

@@connormodin5731 Yeah it's great, much safer than full sedation (propofol) which can all too easily kill you or put you in a coma.

[@hellhound78]

My first surgery was with full anesthesia and I slept so long, everyone started to worry about me.

[@linzianna]

I had a Gastroscopy yesterday and even after a local anaesthetic, 2 doses of midazolam and fentanyl i could still feel and remember everything 😢

[@Jesse78]

Do you have red hair? I've heard some people who have red hair also have a gene that results in significantly reduced sensitivity to anesthesia

[@drbuckley1]

I seem to recall ether during my tonsillectomy in 1958 as a six year-old. Is that possible, or was I dreaming (I had awful farts!).

[@ChristmasLore]

I probably woke up during surgery and didn't remember. (Tonsils, 6 years old too). When I woke up at the end, I screamed my lungs out that the man drenched in blood with his white cloak wanted to kill me. Did not stop screaming for at least 15 mn, and just after tonsils removal! They did feed me incredible amounts of ice cream to make me shut up (and not tell my parents)!

[@doogannash1970]

your channels are fantastic. and this might be my favorite so far.

[@lukaszgier]

The past was the worst

[@wildgr33n]

the discovery of nitrous is my favorite story to hear, i'll never pass it up x)

[@carlramirez6339]

I wonder if people in the 19th century were saying "Horace Wells didn't kill himself".

[@tokiwartuthe]

I really like this new channel Simon! All of your channels or amazing!

[@GiraffeFlavoredCondoms]

If anyone's ever done nox "I feel like the sound of a harp" is surprisingly accurate. There really aren't many downsides to it so long as you're _breathing air in between._ I'd recommend most people try it at least once, why let those empty whipped cream cans go to waste lol

[@pooryorick831]

For some reason we jumped from chloroform straight to propofol and etomidate. In between there was sodium pentothal, which was the primary anaestthetic in field hospitals during WWII and subsequent wars. Now all I can say is thank god for propofol. It makes medical procedures so much more enjoyable. So do fentanyl and versed. All are blessed elixirs of rest and relaxation that make surgery tolerable if not enjoyable.

[@theexchipmunk]

What if find great is that we have by now come so far that full anesthesia is nor required even for some very invasive surgerys anymore. I had reconstructive ligament surgery in my hand about two years ago, with holes drilled into my bones, tissues lifted arunt the base joit of my thumb and a transplant inserted from one of the ligaments in my lower arm. And I was concious during the whole surgery. Just my arm got anestesized. And its so much better than a full narcosis. No intubation and the side effects of it, no groggyness, no sickness and much more gentle on the system. And I could give feedback during the surgery, eliminating the small but exsting risk of waking up during surgery but still paralysed by the medication. In the future I will do every surgery possible like this.

[@scotthargrave2681]

Fany Burney!! 🤣🤣🤣 And many other silly names for venereal diseases in today's episode

[@JohnPaul-ii]

Thankfully medicine has come along way, now it’s safe to say “Wake me when it’s over Doc”.

[@bradencluster4739]

I like the walk away at the end :p

[@CrnPan1]

Watch British comedy series Quacks. It is about 4 doctors and real medical practices used in Victorian time. "In Victorian London four pioneers, friends, and rivals fighting to make a mark on the world and save lives."

[@kaylamartin6280]

I like the way you say Mandragora Simon.

[@ChopBassMan]

It's really terrible that this video was de-monitized. As there's hardly anyone in the "civilized" world who hasn't had at least one surgery, I would think that this history and deep dive into different anesthetics is very important to know.

[@nateniezgoda1964]

"His strong dislike of pain" same here bud.

[@VisaisforCucks]

Interesting fact hua tuo was killed By Cao Cao because he suggested that he would need to perform brain surgery to cure Cao Cao frequent head aches

[@teekolinski491]

They actually had a good idea in the early days with the Mandrake family of plants. The doses & method of consumption is what probably led to poisoning/death.

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There's a good book about all of this The Butchering Art - Lindsey Fitzharris