The operations performed on two successive days at the modern Pontiac Osteopathic Hospital in Michigan could not be considered dangerous. Nonetheless they turned into a nightmare of anesthetic error, ...

1846: Dentist William Morton uses ether to anesthetize a patient in Boston. It was not the first such use, but it began a train of events leading to the widespread adoption of ether for surgical ...

Rarely does a single event alter the course of medicine, but that is what happened at Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital on Oct. 16, 1846. Dr. John Collins Warren, having just excised a growth ...

In 1846, a dentist and a surgeon tried something dramatically new: the first public operation performed with anesthesia. Armed with a glass globe filled with ether, they anesthetized a patient and ...

Ether, short for diethyl ether, is one of the most important chemicals in history and its use as a general anesthetic is arguably one of the greatest discoveries of all time (1). Surgery before ...

Greg Balla, Lee Sellars (seated), Tom Patterson and Richmond Hoxie act in a scene from "Ether Dome." (Courtesy T. Charles Erickson/Huntington Theatre) On Oct. 16, 1846, a flustered young man named ...

One day last week 10,000 Southerners poured into the little town of Jefferson in northern Georgia. Most of them went to see Postmaster General Jim Farley, posting through the South on one of his ...

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