The first anaesthetic in Central Africa.

Abstract:

:The Reverend Doctor Robert Laws (1851-1934) followed in the footsteps of David Livingstone to Central Africa. At the beginning of a long and distinguished career as a medical missionary in Christian service to the country that has since become the Republic of Malawi, he was a prime mover in the setting up of a mission station at Cape Maclear, on the shores of Lake Malawi (formerly known as Lake Nyasa and closely associated with the discoveries of Doctor Livingstone). There, on 2 March 1876, Laws used chloroform to produce surgical anaesthesia when he operated on a young African male who had a cystic tumour above his left eye.

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Anaesthesia

journal_title

Anaesthesia

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10.1111/j.1365-2044.1985.tb10611.x

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Has Abstract

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1985-11-01 00:00:00

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1103-7

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11

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0003-2409

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1365-2044

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40

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