麻醉术

　　麻醉术就是用药物或针刺等方法使人的全身或某一部分暂时失去知觉，医疗上一般在实施外科手术时使用。世界上第一个发明麻醉手术的人是中国东汉时的“神医”华佗。

　　早在春秋战国时期，中国的民间医生就懂得并记载了某些药物所具有的麻醉作用。东汉名医华佗在认真研究古书的基础上，亲自去山野里采集具有麻醉作用的曼陀罗等药草，经过炮制加工，制成了麻醉药“麻沸散”。

　　一天，人们抬来一个危重病人。华佗让病人喝下“麻沸散”，然后打开他的腹腔，清理了腐烂的肠子，在病人毫无痛苦的情况下完成了剖腹手术。这次手术是中国也是世界上有文字记载的最早的大型剖腹手术病例。

　　现代医学已经广泛地使用麻醉术，人们永远不会忘记麻醉术的先驱者——华佗。

　　Narcotherapy is to disable the body or one part temporarily by drugs or acupuncture, which is usually used in surgical operations.

　　As early as the Spring and Autumn and the Warring States periods (770-221 BC), some Chinese doctors had known and recorded the anesthesia function of some drugs. The famous doctor Hua Tuo of the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220 AD), on the basis of carefully studying ancient books, went to the mountains and plains to collect herbs with an anesthesia function, such as jimsonweed, which were made into narcotic drugs after being roasted and processed.

　　One day, people carried a seriously ill patient to Hua Tuo. He let the patient drink the drug and then opened his abdominal cavity and cleared away his rotten intestines, completing the operation while the patient felt no pain. This operation was the earliest recorded large-scale laparotomy both in China and in the world.