Henry Knowles Beecher was a pioneering American anesthesiologist, placebo effect researcher, and medical ethics specialist. Due to his somewhat controversial character—breaking barriers and revolutionizing everything around him—we're certain he would have been part of the Sedalux team. Raised in rural Kansas during World War I, he changed his German surname to the Anglophone Beecher in […]

When the Allies were fighting to liberate Europe from Nazi control during World War II, the demand for morphine in field hospitals was extremely high, and it became scarce when battles resulted in heavy casualties. Sometimes, surgeries even had to be performed without anesthesia. On one such occasion, Henry K. Beecher, an American anesthesiologist stationed […]

Since time immemorial man has tried to avoid pain and to manage it in some way in order to alleviate or suppress it. Without wishing to make a historical review of the many written references on pain, since ancient times there has been an evident concern to try to control it. An interesting concept of […]