Pierre-Cyprien Oré

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Pierre-Cyprien Oré

French surgeon

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anesthesia
…in 1872 by French surgeon Pierre-Cyprien Oré, who used chloral hydrate to produce general anesthesia. Cocaine was used as a local anesthetic beginning in 1884 and as a spinal anesthetic by German surgeon August Karl Gustav Bier in 1898. Synthetic agents began to be introduced in the middle of the…
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…in 1872 by French surgeon Pierre-Cyprien Oré, who used chloral hydrate to produce general anesthesia. Cocaine was used as a local anesthetic beginning in 1884 and as a spinal anesthetic by German surgeon August Karl Gustav Bier in 1898. Synthetic agents began to be introduced in the middle of the…
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