The introduction of surgical anaesthesia in Van Diemen's Land, with some account of William Russ Pugh, M. D., and especially the occasion when on June 7, 1847, at Saint John's Hospital, Launceston, he was the first, in Australia, to administer either as a surgical procedure.
D000758:Anesthesia; D000776:Anesthesiology; D001315:Australia; D006664:History; D006761:Hospitals; D018597:Saints
ANESTHESIA/introduction in Van Diemen's land; BIOGRAPHY; HISTORY; LAUNCESTON/St John hospital; VAN DIEMEN'S LAND/surgical anesthesia in 1847