Source A William Hooper at the height of his career, c.1870.
1 Read the account of William Hooper’s life given here. What evidence justifies the view expressed by the author that Hooper was ‘clearly a shrewd entrepreneur’?
Today, it is so taken for granted that when someone has an operation they are first given an anaesthetic that it is hard to imagine how limited surgery would be without it. Almost all subsequent advances in surgery depend upon the use of safe and effective anaesthetics. Yet their development is a relatively recent advance in the history of medicine, dating from the 1840s. So who was William Hooper and what is his connection with anaesthesia and the history of medicine?
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