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, ...

An illustration of Crawford Long removing a tumor from the neck of James Venable. Crawford W. Long Museum, CC BY-SA In the small town of Jefferson, Georgia, about 20 miles from the University of ...

(WHTM) It was the most amazing surgery of the 1840s, the procedure you read about in all the history books. It’s the one depicted in paintings. It brought the concept of general anesthesia to doctors ...

October 16 is "Ether Day" — celebrating the first time anesthesia was successfully used for surgery in 1846. The "Ether Dome" where the surgery took place is now a historic landmark in Boston. World ...

“Yesterday morning, Dr. Morton, Dentist, No. 19 Tremont Row . . . visited the… hospital, and administered his preparation to produce sleep, to a person about to undergo the operation of the extraction ...

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 ...

While nitrous oxide gas has been used recreationally and medically for more than 200 years - originally for its euphoric and then for its pain relieving and anesthetic properties - the mechanism ...

Roger K. Thomas does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

This article forms the opening chapter of a forthcoming publication, William Thomas Green Morton and the Discovery of Surgical Anesthesia, by the late William W. Ford, M.D., D.P.H., emeritus professor ...