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What Happened When a Few Physicians in England,such as Elliotson

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What happened when a few physicians in England,such as Elliotson and Ward,raised the possibility of using mesmerism as a surgical anaesthetic in the 1840s?


A) They were roundly ignored by their colleagues.
B) They were ridiculed or actively persecuted by the established medical community.
C) They established their point successfully for a short time, until hypnotism was superseded by chemical anaesthetics.
D) Their early experiments were failures, so they abandoned the idea.

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