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A new anesthetic, three to five times as powerful as ether, has been developed by Dr. John Christian Krantz, professor of pharmacology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. It is called ...

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 ...

“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 ...

(WHTM) It was the most amazing surgery of the 1840s, the procedure you read about in all the history books. It’s the one depicted in paintings. It brought the concept of general anesthesia to doctors ...