Close-up of a 1930s iron lung, with text describing its manufacturer.

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Statuette of Hua Tuo

Approximately 1600 years before William T. G. Morton, Chinese physician Hua Tuo invented an anaesthetic that he called mafeisan and applied this substance to patients undergoing abdominal surgery.