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The alternative story of how anaesthesia was discovered

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Long before William Morton was credited as the founding father of modern anaesthesia, Dr David Wilkinson believes a Japanese surgeon worked out how to render patients unconscious. Photo: Datura sanguinea, angel's trumpet, which was used in the creation of an ancient Japanese anaesthesia. (Bildagentur-online/UIG via Getty Images)

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