1885 CORNING, James Leonard (1855 – 1923)

Spinal anaesthesia and local medication of the cord.

Spinal anesthesia introduced. Corning showed experimentally that cocaine exerts a prolonged anesthetic effect while arresting the circulation in the anesthetized area. He first described injection of cocaine between t…

GMN 5680 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7371

1899 BIER, August Karl Gustav (1861 – 1949)

Versuche über Cocainisirung des Rückenmarkes.

Bier introduced the use of cocaine as a spinal anesthetic.

GMN 5684 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/7392