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Also Known As anaesthetic

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procaine; Novocain
Sir Humphry Davy
Horace Wells
Ether anesthesia
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Gardner Quincy Colton
American anesthetist and inventor
Ether anesthesia
William Thomas Green Morton
American surgeon
Horace Wells
Horace Wells
American dentist
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Crawford Williamson Long
American physician
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Walter Channing
American physician
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Hua Tuo
Chinese physician and surgeon
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Charles Thomas Jackson
American physician and geologist
Simpson, Sir James Young, 1st Baronet
Sir James Young Simpson, 1st Baronet
Scottish physician
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Carl Koller
American surgeon

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