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Traces of red material crusted on ancient surgical tools may not be a record of pain, but rather the absence thereof. Metal scissors and tweezers recovered from a Ming Dynasty tomb in Jiangyin County, ...

Before ether, before chloroform, before the entire modern architecture of surgical anaesthesia was built in the nineteenth century, a physician in the Ming Dynasty of China was putting patients under ...

A 600-year-old set of surgical tools found in a tomb in China has revealed the world's first chemical evidence of a topical anesthetic. Used to numb the skin in surgical procedures, the anesthetic was ...