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.

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.

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Anesthesia has changed much less, with just a handful of better drugs emerging. Ether gave way to less flammable chemical cousins. Barbiturates and dexmedetomidine were found by accident.

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.

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 ...