c. 220
Medicine
China
Hua Tuo and surgical anaesthesia
The Chinese physician reportedly used a herbal draught, mafeisan, to render patients insensible for surgery.
Why it mattered
An early attempt to abolish surgical pain.
Antiquity
220
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