SCHCT on Twitter: "RT @RCSEdArchive: German surgeon August Bier d. #OTD 1949. Bier used cocaine to perform the first recorded surgery with spinal anaesthesia…" / Twitter
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Legends Of Surgery on Twitter: "German surgeon August Bier (1861-1949) was the first to perform surgery under spinal anesthesia on August 16, 1898, and created the intravenous regional neural block (aka Bier
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