The correct answer is C) was administering anesthesia was dangerous work.
The primary reason nurses, rather than doctors, became the first anesthetists was administering anesthesia was dangerous work.
It was during the American Civil War that nurses had to first am¿dminister anesthesia to wounded soldiers before entering into surgery. These nurses were dedicated women committed to taking care of the patient from the beginning to the end, something that doctors did not do because they just limited to the surgery itself. Nurses were the pioneers in the field of anesthesia.
