Assertion: anesthetic | /r/CapableOf | achieve first two
Facets:
value: reliably
type: MANNER
value: in the early days of anesthesia
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: In the early days of anesthesia, anesthetics could reliably achieve the first two, allowing surgeons to perform necessary procedures, but many patients died because the extremes of blood pressure and pulse caused by the surgical insult were ultimately harmful.