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, ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...