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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 ...

World Anaesthesia Day is marked on October 16 annually to recognise the work done by anaesthesia providers across the world, facilitating successful surgeries for medical professionals. The date is ...

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 ...

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 carnivorous Venus flytrap can be anesthetized with ether. Some surprising parallels to anesthesia in humans emerge. Medicine has a broad repertoire of anesthetics at its medication allows patients ...

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 ...