An early anaesthetic in Papua New Guinea
by
Phillips GD.
Flinders University of South Australia,
Flinders Medical Centre,
Adelaide, S.A.
Anaesth Intensive Care. 1997 Jun;25(3):286-8

ABSTRACT

A search for information about early anaesthetics administered in Papua New Guinea has revealed that an ether or chloroform anaesthetic was given, probably for a retained placenta, at Port Hunter on December 9, 1880. The anaesthetist or anaesthetic assistant was the Reverend George Brown, a Wesleyan Methodist missionary.

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