congress - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 1986 - 5 Shilling

The Austrian Society for Anaesthesiology, Resuscitation and Intensive Therapy was founded in September 1951 with almost 40 members. In 1986, for the second time, she had received the honorable assignment to organize a European Anesthesia Congress. October 16, 1846 is generally considered a true birthday of narcosis. On that day, the Boston dentist Henry G.T. Morton in a lecture hall of the Surgical Clinic of Massachusetts General Hospital with the help of a primitive, self-developed apparatus for the first time successful ether ether anesthesia. In the following surgery, a young man was able to remove a tumor from his neck completely painlessly. In Austria, the first ethereal anesthesia took place on January 27, 1847 at the II. Surgical Clinic in Vienna. The special stamp published on the occasion of the congress shows a Venice-based illustration of the extraction of the magic herb Mandragora, which is also known as Mandrake. This plant has long been attributed magical powers, toxic as well as healing properties. Even in today's anesthesia practice, belladonna alkaloids - the ingredients of the mandrains - prove to be indispensable.