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It is hard to imagine what the practice of surgery was like before the discovery of anesthesia; before ether was first demonstrated in the mid-1800’s, the main measure of a surgeon’s skill was speed. (It had been known for some 500 years that ether could induce painless sleep in animals before someone thought to try it on humans.) But despite the tremendous advances in anesthesia over its 150 year history, it remains a worry for some and a source of confusion for many.