REFERENCES
and further reading

• Abraham de Sola
• Acetylcholine/nicotinic receptors
• Acupuncture
• Adam
• Addiction
• Adverse reactions
• Africa
• Alert-centre/brain
• Alpha2 adrenoceptors
• Alphaxalone
• Alzheimers/inhaled anaesthetics
• Amnesic potency
• Amobarbital (Amytal)
• Amphibians
• Amputation
• Anaesthesia
• Anaesthesia (pdf)
• Anaesthesia/16th October 1846
• Anaesthesia/abortion
• Anaesthesia apparatus, history
• Anaesthesia, contemporary
• Anaesthesia/discovery
• Anaesthesia/elderly
• Anaesthesia/pioneers
• Anaesthesia/sleep
• Anaesthesia/worms
• Anaesthesia/soporific sponge
• Anaesthesia vs sedation
• Anaesthesiologists/drugs
• Anaesthetic choice
• Anaesthetics
• Anaesthetics/mechanisms
• Anaesthetics/military and religious objections
• Anaphylactic shock
• Antidepressants/anaesthesia
• Anton Mesmer
• Arabo-Islamic medicine
• Auditory steady-state response
• August Bier
• Avicenna
• Awareness during anaesthesia
• Balanced v total intravenous anaesthesia
• Barbiturate anaesthesia
• Beaver anaesthesia
• Beddoes, Thomas
• Biblical interpretation
• Bier, August
• Bigelow, Henry J.
• Binding energetics
• Bispectral index monitoring
• Blood-brain barrier
• Bodies
• Brain microtubules
• Calculus of suffering
• Cannabis
• Capnography
• Cats
• Centenarians
• Cerebral anaesthesia
• Chirality
• Chlorodyne
• Chloroform
• Chloroform anaesthesia
• Chloroform/liver damage
• Chloroform/obstetrics
• Chloroform/James Simpson
• Christopher Wren
• Circumcision
• Cocaine
• Colt, Samuel
• Colton, Gardner Quincy
• Comparisons
• Congenital insensitivity to pain
• Conjoined twins
• Conscious sedation
• Consent to anaesthesia
• Crawford Williamson Long
• Croatia
• Curare
• 'Cutoff effect'?
• Cyclopropane
• Dantrolene
• Davy, Humphry
• Dendtric spines
• Denmark
• Depth of anaesthesia
• Desflurane
• Designer drugs
• Diethyl ether
• Dissociative amnesia
• Dissociative stupor
• Dreaming
• Drug interactions
• Electrical anaesthesia
• Electroacupuncture
• Elephants
• Enflurane (Ethrane)
• 'Entonox'
• Eternal pain?
• Ether
• Ether addiction
• Ether frolics
• Ether/obstetrics
• Ethyl chloride
• Etomidate (Amidate)
• Etomidate/GABA(A) beta3 subunit
• Evolution/anaesthesia
• Familial indifference to pain
• Faraday, Michael
• Fentanyl
• Fentanyl/second-hand exposure
• Finland
• Fish
• Flies
• 'Foamy narcotic powder'
• France
• Fritz Lotsch
• GABA(A)
• Gamma-hydroxybutyric acid (GHB)
• Genes
• General anaesthesia
• General anaesthetics
• General anaesthetic techniques
• Germany
• Glasgow
• Glutamate receptors
• Glycine receptors
• Goda Daisuke
• Guy de Maupassant/Dreams
• Halothane
• Hanaoka, Seishu
• Helmut Weese
• Henry Bigelow
  
• Henry Hill Hickman
• Herbal medicine
• Hickman, Henry Hill
• Holmes, Oliver Wendell
• Horace Wells
• Horace Wells/nitrous oxide anaesthesia
• Horses
• Humphry Davy
• Hyperalgesia
• Hypnosis
• Hypnotic analgesia
• Hypnotics
• 'Hysterical' anaesthesia
• Ignaz Semmelweis
• Immobility
• Informed consent
• Inhalants
• Inhaled anaesthetics
• Injections
• Interhemispheric memory transfer
• Intraoperative waking
• Isoflurane
• Jackson, Charles
• James Simpson
• Japan/Seishu Hanaoka
• Jehovah's witnesses
• John Snow
• John Collins Warren/'Letheon'
• Joseph Lister/infection-control
• John S. Lundy
• Karl Hammerschmidt
• Ketamine
• Ketamine.com
• Ketamine (Ketalar, Ketacet, Ketajet, etc)
• Heroin/rapid detox
• Koller, Karl
• 'Laughing Gas'
• Letheon inhaler
• Ligand-gated ion channels
• Lister, Joseph
• Liston, Robert
• Llamas
• Local anaesthesia
• Loggerhead turtles
• Long, Crawford Williamson
• Lorazepam
• Malignant hyperthermia
• Manchester
• Mandragora
• Mayaku ko
• Mechanisms
• Mediaeval surgery
• Mesmer, Anton
• Mesmerism
• Methohexital (Brevital)
• Mexican-American War
• Meyer-Overton rule
• Michael Faraday
• Midazolam-fentanyl
• Mid-operative awakenings
• Mimosa pudica/volatile anaesthetics
• Mitchill, Samual
• Molecular action/clinical effects
• Molecular mechanisms
• Morton, William
• 'Multiple site and multiple mechanisms' concept
• Muscle relaxants
• 'My beloved chloroform'
• Nathan Keep
• Neonatal anaesthesia
• Neural mechanisms
• Neuroleptanaesthesia
• Neuromuscular blocking muscle relaxants
• New Zealand
• Nitrous oxide ('laughing gas')
• Nitrous oxide (dinitrogen oxide)
• Nitrous oxide: adverse effects
• Nitrous oxide inhalation
• Nitrous oxide/oxygen
• Nitrous oxide/opioid release
• Nitrous oxide - subjective effects
• NMDA glutamate receptors
• Nociception
• Nooth apparatus
• Noradrenaline
• Nordic anaesthesia
• Norway
• Nyugan Seimei Roku
• Obstetric anaesthesia
• Obstetric anaesthesia, opposition
• Opioids
• opioids.wiki
• Opossums
• Orexins
• Otto Kappeler
• Ottoman Turkey
• Oxygen
• Oxygen, peri-operative
• Pain neurobiology
• Pain-free surgery
• 'Pain genes'
• Pain-sensitivity
• Papua New Guinea
• Perioperative medicine
• Polar bears
• PONV
• Post-operative recovery
• Potassium channels
• Premedication
• Priestley, Joseph
• Propofol
• Propofol v methohexital
• Pulse oximetry
• QEEG
• QX314 + capsaicin
• Rats and mice
• Remifentanil
• René Groupil: patron saint of anaesthetists
• Reptiles
• Rhinoceroses
• Robert Glover
• Robert Hinckley
• Robert Koch
• Robert Liston
• Samuel Latham Mitchill
• Saxitoxin
• Scopolamine
• 'Secularisation of pain'
• Seishu Hanaoka
• Sepsis
• Septohippocampal system
• Sevoflurane (Ultane)
• Sexual hallucinations
• Sheep
• 'Sherlock Holmes'
• Simpson, James
• Snow White
• Snow, John
• Solanaceae and early anaesthesia
• Southey, Robert
• Spanish anaesthesia
• Spinal chord
• Spongia somnifera
• Subanaesthetic concentrations/pain threshold
• Succinylcholine
• Sufentanil
• Surgical anaesthesia
• Techniques
• Thalamocortical connectivity
• Thalamocortical switch?
• Thailand
• Thiopentone (Thiopental)
• Toxicity
• Toxicology
• TRPC5/calcium ion channels
• Tsusensan: recipe of first general anaesthetic?
• Tuberomammillary nucleus/anaesthetics
• Two-pore-domain K+ channels
• 'Unconscious' learning/propofol
• Valerius Cordus/ether
• Velpeau, Alfred-Armand-Louis-Marie
• Volatile anaesthetics
• Volition/pain response loss
• Warren, John Collins
• Wartime
• Wells, Horace
• William G Morton
• William James
• William Wright
• Witches' ointments
• Worm behaviour
• Xenon
• Xenon anaesthesia
• 'The Yankee Dodge'

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