Revue d'histoire de la pharmacie
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Rev Hist Pharm (Paris) · Jan 1995
Biography Historical Article[When pharmacists administered anesthesia].
Using the examples of several operations undertaken in Bordeaux, the author shows that pharmacists acted as anesthesiologists with the use of chloroform very soon after the first such usage on a patient in Edinburgh (1847). One such was J.-J. Fauré (1799-1869), otherwise known as the author of numerous works on chemical analysis.