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===Anesthesia===

===Anesthesia===

The first surgical operation described in the Bible was the removal of a rib from [[Adam]], which was performed by first putting Adam into an unconscious,  "deep sleep-like trance."<ref>[[Genesis 1-8 (Translated)|Genesis 2:21]]</ref>  This was the equivalent of anesthesia &#8212; thousands of years before anesthesia using inhaled ether was developed by William Morton in 1846.  Had scientists and physicians been more [[Essay:Quantifying Openmindedness|openminded]] about Genesis 2:21 (perhaps they had considered it a miracle, and thus impossible for humans to achieve), they may have discovered anesthesia far sooner, and saved many more lives.

The first surgical operation described in the Bible was the removal of a rib from [[Adam]], which was performed by first putting Adam into an unconscious,  "deep sleep-like trance."<ref>[[Genesis 1-8 (Translated)|Genesis 2:21]]</ref>  This was the equivalent of anesthesia &#8212; thousands of years before anesthesia using inhaled ether was developed by William Morton in 1846.  Had scientists and physicians been more [[Essay:Quantifying Openmindedness|openminded]] about Genesis 2:21, they may have discovered anesthesia far sooner, and saved many more lives.

===Bloodletting hastens death===

===Bloodletting hastens death===