[Ramón Alfaro and the Mexican anesthesia]
Silvestre Antonio Sánchez-Meneses1
1silvestre_historian@hotmail.com
Abstract:
Recent historical inquiries have shed light on a series of articles published between 1840 and 1868 by Ramón Alfaro M.D. His publications reflect the work of a persevering medical researcher who carried out studies of health conditions endemic at the time. One of his first publications is devoted to chloroform. In it, Dr. Alfaro made a careful assessment on the use of anesthesia, published the first statistical study of the impact of inhalational anesthesia in a number of surgical procedures, and was able to establish the foundations for more rational and safe anesthetic procedures.
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