When a Few Physicians in England,such as Elliotson and Ward,raised

question 14

Multiple Choice

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• C) they established their point successfully for a short time, until hypnotism was superseded by chemical anaesthetics.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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