title: [Ramón Alfaro and the Mexican anesthesia].
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.
authors.affiliation: silvestre_historian@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Silvestre Antonio
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Sánchez-Meneses
mesh_terms: D000758:Anesthesia / Q000266:history*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D008800:Mexico