“Of all milestones and achievements in medicine, conquering pain must be one of the very few that has potentially affected every human being in the world.” (Daniel H. Robinson & Alexander H. Toledo, 2012). It was in 1846 that one of mankind’s greatest fears, the pain of surgery, was eliminated. In the age before anesthetics, the norm was to perform surgeries on fully-conscious patients that were forcefully held down despite their cries and pleas. Now in the twenty first century it is hard to imagine agreeing to surgery without the hope of anesthesia. John Collins Warren is credited with accomplishing one of the truly greatest moments in the long history of medicine on October 16, 1846 in the Boston Massachusetts General Hospital; performing
