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The nineteenth century introduced developments in science and medicine that made the eradication of pain conceivable for the first time. This new understanding

The nineteenth century was a period of science and imagery: when scientific theories and discoveries challenged longstanding boundaries between animal, plant, a

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The introduction of anaesthesia to Victorian Britain marked a defining moment between modern medicine and earlier practices. This book uses new information from

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