Editing General anaesthetic (section)

===Ethanol===
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While most research focuses on the intoxicating effects of ethanol, it can also produce a general anesthesia.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Wong |first1=SM |last2=Fong |first2=E |last3=Tauck |first3=DL |last4=Kendig |first4=JJ |title=Ethanol as a general anesthetic: actions in spinal cord. |journal=European Journal of Pharmacology |date=25 June 1997 |volume=329 |issue=2–3 |pages=121–7 |doi=10.1016/S0014-2999(97)89174-1 |pmid=9226403|doi-access=free }}</ref> Since [[Classical antiquity|antiquity]], prior to the development of modern agents, [[Alcohols (medicine)|alcohol]] was used as a general anaesthetic.<ref name="IISaidman2013">{{cite book| vauthors = Eger II EI, Saidman LJ, Westhorpe RN |title=The Wondrous Story of Anesthesia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H--3BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA4|date=14 September 2013|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=978-1-4614-8441-7 |pages=4– |url-status=live|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170918190140/https://books.google.com/books?id=H--3BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA4| archive-date=18 September 2017}}</ref>