How Ether Went From a Recreational ‘Frolic’ Drug to the First Surgery Anesthetic Before ether was used as an anesthetic in surgery, doctors relied on less effective techniques for pain relief ...

But six years earlier, on March 30, 1842, Dr. Crawford W. Long of Jefferson, Georgia, used ether as an anesthetic during an operation-also to remove a patient’s neck tumor.

Before 1846, surgery was a crude and brutal undertaking, typically performed on conscious patients lashed to their beds. Then a Boston dentist publicly demonstrated that the highly flammable chemical ...

When another Pontiac anesthesiologist, Dr. Stanley E. Abrams, began work in O.R. No. 1 on the day before the first fatal operation, he had found ether in the gas-anesthesia machine. Dr.

In a monthly column for PBS NewsHour, Dr. Howard Markel revisits moments that changed the course of modern medicine on their anniversaries, like the groundbreaking use of anesthesia on a surgical ...

(THE CONVERSATION) In the small town of Jefferson, Georgia, about 20 miles from the University of Georgia in Athens, a 26-year-old physician named Crawford Williamson Long removed a tumor from the ...

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.

The older term "ether convulsions" is inappropriate since these attacks have been described as occurring as well under anesthesia employing nitrous oxide and oxygen, chloroform, vinethene ...

Greg Balla, Lee Sellars (seated), Tom Patterson and Richmond Hoxie act in a scene from "Ether Dome." (Courtesy T. Charles Erickson/Huntington Theatre) On Oct. 16, 1846, a flustered young man named ...

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 ...