Anesthesia (Ether)
InventorWilliam Morton
Year1846
CategoryMedicine
OriginUSA
About Anesthesia (Ether)
The Ether Dome at Massachusetts General Hospital is where surgery changed forever. Morton demonstrated ether anesthesia publicly on October 16, 1846. Crawford Long had used ether earlier but did not publish. Horace Wells tried nitrous oxide but his public demo failed.
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