Ramón A. Araya Echeverría, Chilean physician (1856 – 19 November 1919)

Regarded as one of inventors of electrical anesthesia

Invented a electroanesthesia machine (1881) that was exhibited in VI International Congress of Electrology and Medical Radiology, Prague (1912)

Despite the fact the machine and method were a great success, they soon became obsolete with the advent of new techniques

SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY

L’électro-anesthésie par le courant d’Araya (1926)

Nouveau traitement des maladies fonctionnelles du systeme nerveux au moyen de l’electro-anesthésie expérimentalement démontré dans la 1re et la 8e séance du Congrès de Prague (1912)

Leyes y aplicaciones de la electro-anestesia (1899)

La electroanestesia. Rev. Med. Chile 10:440-53, 1881