Anesthesia Informative Speech
If we were to go back in time 300 years to a hospital, someone in the first room is giving birth, in the second room someone is getting treatment for stomach pain, and in the third room someone is screaming their lungs out because they are experiencing the dreadful sensation of something we find painless today which is surgery. Why is surgery painless now but extremely horrendous 300 years ago? In 1846 a dentist named William T.G Morton invented a drug that is called Anesthesia. In these very long boring two to three minutes I will tell you how anesthesia works, what is in it, and how it affected the doctors, patients, and the medical community for the people of 1846. Anesthesia works by blocking pain signals from a specific part of the