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, ...

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 ...

THE toxic effects of chloroform on the liver are well known and feared. Studies on animals have suggested a similar role for other anesthetic agents, particularly the ethers. Goldschmidt, Ravdin and ...

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 ...

The tipping point for anesthesia came on 16 th October 1846, when William T.G. Morton demonstrated the removal of a jaw tumour painlessly with the patient being anaesthetized with 'Ether'. Following ...

An 1846 re-enactment of the first ether surgery at the Mass General dome. Daguerrotype by Boston photographers Southworth & Hawes. Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world's hidden wonders.

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 ...