Some 3000 years BC the Assyrians knew an effective method (so to speak) to cause anesthesia: compressing the carotid at the neck. Dioscorides, a Greek physician, also called hamlets, in the year 50 CE anesthesia used the term in its modern meaning in describing the effects of the mandrake, which was administered (a part of the root of the plant) to patients who were to undergo surgery.
It was not until many centuries later, in mid nineteenth century, and drawing quite a few avatars, when steps were critical to saving surgery, then one of its major areas: pain.
Located now in the XXI century, Dr. Cordero Escobar Idoris Sciences, professor, head of the National Group Teaching, valued as a “dizzying” Current development of the specialty with the appearance of new drugs, techniques and equipment to respond to major surgery
