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Robert Liston
British physician
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use of anesthetics
- In anesthetic: Anesthetics through history
…a leg amputation performed by Robert Liston at University College Hospital in London. In Britain, official royal sanction was given to anesthetics by Queen Victoria, who accepted chloroform from her physician, John Snow, when giving birth to her eighth child, Prince Leopold, in 1853.
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