The ‘New World of Surgery’
Journal: Cambridge University Press eBooks
Year: 2022

The 'New World of Surgery' the immediate post-anaesthetic period to the surgical 'dark age'. 14 Indeed, for many surgeons of Ogston's generation, anaesthesia constituted what, to borrow his metaphor, might be called a false dawn. In Chapter 5, we explored how anaesthesia transformed the emotional dimensions of surgery, lessening the dread of operations for patient and surgeon alike. By reducing the impact of shock and eliminating the need to operate with haste, it opened up new corporeal horizon