(Image credit: schmerbert)Cats and dogs are often high on life, but that is nothing compared to being high on drugs. It's nice to be able to laugh at goofy pictures of cats and dogs, and also know that they are okay, and...

Paris Ferguson had a car wreck last year and broke her arm. They gave her some good drugs at the hospital, since they didn't know what other injuries she had. As she came out of surgery and woke up, all her inhibitions f...

Anesthetics cause paralysis, block pain, and suppr...  ...d during the operation she had been under general anesthesia ; even so, it seemed that the surgeon’s word...  ...e Cole-Adams wrote a book about the experience of anesthesia and how it affects what we know as consciousness....

Scottish physician James Y. Simpson is credited wi...  ...Y. Simpson is credited with developing the use of anesthesia in childbirth. It's true that Simpson popularized...  ...dquo;But Long still believed in the importance of anesthesia and administered ether to his wife during the bir...  ...especially after Qu...

Abby Jo Hamele is a student at the University of N...  ...hink so. She was obviously still under a cloud of anesthesia , which can take quite a few hours to wear off. Ke...

On Oct. 16, 1846, the first surgical procedure was...  ...atter of course today: He attempted to patent his anesthesia , which he named Letheon, and an inhaler device he...  ...ed! Read about Morton, and how the development of anesthesia

GE Healthcare wanted LEGO artist Eric Harshbar...  ...e, you'd assume that this was a picture of a real anesthesia machine. Link -via Technabob

(YouTube link) A brother and sister had their wisdom teeth removed on the same day. Lucky for us, mom was armed with a camera for the ride home! -via Bits and Pieces...

You know this is going to be funny. Allie Brosch tells about the time she had oral surgery the same day as a friend's birthday party. Part of the account reminds me of the viral video David After Dentist, except of c...