In 1846 William G. Morton, a young Boston-based dentist, showed that inhaling ether in a proper dose can make a person insensible to pain without affecting their vital physiologic functions. This ...

Since 1846, doctors have used a variety of drugs to make patients unconscious for surgery, but even though the medications have changed, there's one thing that remains the same— it works. But how ...

An Address delivered October 16,1896, at the Commemoration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the First Public Demonstration of Surgical Anesthesia. Select the format you want to export the citation of ...