Conquering Surgical Pain

Created by the Neurosurgical Service at the Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), these fascinating Web pages chronicle the introduction of ether as an anesthetic in 1846 at MGH and subsequent developments in anesthesiology.

Go to: http://neurosurgery.mgh.harvard.edu/History/ether1.htm

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