What Happened When a Few Physicians in England,such as Elliotson

question 5

Multiple Choice

What happened when a few physicians in England,such as Elliotson and Ward,raised the possibility of using mesmerism as a surgical anaesthetic in the 1840s?

• A) They were roundly ignored by their colleagues.
• B) They were ridiculed or actively persecuted by the established medical community.
• C) They established their point successfully for a short time, until hypnotism was superseded by chemical anaesthetics.
• D) Their early experiments were failures, so they abandoned the idea.

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