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Though anaesthetics (ether and nitrous oxide) were known from the beginning of the nineteenth century, they were not applied to surgical practice until much later. The first operation under ether was performed in 1842, but anaesthesia was not generally used until about 1850. As far as local anaesthesia is concerned, it (cocaine) was not discovered until 1884 by C. Koller. It was approximately at this time that Esdaile, a British surgeon in India, decided to try hypnosis. In the brief period of 1847-1851, he performed, on the natives, altogether several hundred operations, both minor and major. During the first year, he was not completely successful, and some of his patients suddenly awoke in the midst of an operation. But in the subsequent years he improved his technique, gained in confidence, and operated without any disturbance on the part of his patients.

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