英语词汇anesthesia的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

anesthesia. Here we see a word being born, even to the exact date. Soon after William Thomas Green Morton successfully employed ether in an operation at Boston’s Massachusetts Gen- eral Hospital in 1846, New England poet-physician Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote in a November 21st letter to him: “Ev- ery body wants to have a hand in a great discovery. All I will do is give you a hint or two as to names—or the name—to be ap- plied to the state produced and the agent. The state should, I think, be called ‘Anaethesia’ (which derives from the Greek anaisthesia, ‘lack of sensation’). This signifies insensibility . . . The adjective will be ‘Anaesthetic’.” Thus, Holmes clearly coined the term anaesthesia (now usually spelled anesthesia), even though it had been recorded in a different sense over a century before in England. Holmes also coined the “unsuccessful” word chrysocracy, in his novel Elsie Venner (1861). As he explained in another letter: “In Elsie Venner I made the word chrysocracy, thinking it would take its place; but it didn’t; plutocracy, mean- ing the same thing, was adopted instead.” See also better a hash at home than a roast with strangers.

词汇	anesthesia
词源	anesthesia. Here we see a word being born, even to the exact date. Soon after William Thomas Green Morton successfully employed ether in an operation at Boston’s Massachusetts Gen- eral Hospital in 1846, New England poet-physician Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote in a November 21st letter to him: “Ev- ery body wants to have a hand in a great discovery. All I will do is give you a hint or two as to names—or the name—to be ap- plied to the state produced and the agent. The state should, I think, be called ‘Anaethesia’ (which derives from the Greek anaisthesia, ‘lack of sensation’). This signifies insensibility . . . The adjective will be ‘Anaesthetic’.” Thus, Holmes clearly coined the term anaesthesia (now usually spelled anesthesia), even though it had been recorded in a different sense over a century before in England. Holmes also coined the “unsuccessful” word chrysocracy, in his novel Elsie Venner (1861). As he explained in another letter: “In Elsie Venner I made the word chrysocracy, thinking it would take its place; but it didn’t; plutocracy, mean- ing the same thing, was adopted instead.” See also better a hash at home than a roast with strangers.
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