Hua Tuo
华佗
Hua Tuo's greatest achievement was in surgery, he invented the anesthetic herb solution, which was a general anaesthetic. The procedure he took was as follow： At first the patient was told to swallow the anesthetic solution along with wine； when the patient lost his sense as a drunken person, he cut open the patients abdomen. If he found a tumor he cut it off. If it was an impaired intestine or stomach, he cut off the impaired part, cleaned the part, sewed up the part and applied on the part an ointment. About a week later it would heal up，and about a month later the patient would recover fully. Hua Tuo invented general anesthesia in the second or third century A. D.，earlier by more than 1 600 years than when the Western surgeons used ether or nitrous oxide to effect general anaesthesia. He was not only the first surgeon in China but also the first surgeon in the world to perform an abdomen operation with general anesthesia.
华佗的最大的成就是在外科手术中，他发明了草药的麻醉剂，这是一种全身麻醉。他把程序分为：首先病人被告知要吞下混着酒的麻醉剂溶液;当病人因为醉酒失去意识时，他剖开病人的腹部。如果他发现一个肿瘤，他就把它砍下来。如果是肠或胃受损，他切断受损的部分并清洗，洗完后用软膏上药。大约一个星期后，它就会痊愈，大约一个月后，患者将完全恢复。大约在公元第二或第三个世纪，华佗发明了全身麻醉，比西方外科医生使用的醚或一氧化二氮的来实现全身麻醉早1600多年。他不仅是中国第一个外科医生，而且是世界上的第一个采用全身麻醉进行腹部手术的外科医生。
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