Ether Dome
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The Ether Dome is a surgical operating amphitheater in the Bulfinch Building at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It served as the hospital's operating room from
Inside the Ether Dome at Massachusetts General Hospital
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Ether Day, or The First Operation Under Ether (Robert C. Hinckley, 1882–1893) is on display at UMass Chan Medical School's Lamar Soutter library.
Warren and Lucia Prosperi's Ether Day, 1846 as displayed inside the Ether Dome.
William T. G. Morton
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William Thomas Green Morton was an American dentist who first publicly demonstrated the use of inhaled ether as a surgical anesthetic in 1846. He is credited with gaining the medical world’s acceptanc
Ether Dome
…demonstration of the use of inhaled ether as a surgical anesthetic on October 16, 1846, otherwise known as Ether Day. The Ether Dome event occurred when William Thomas Green Morton, a local dentist, used ether to anesthetize Edward Gilbert Abbott. John Collins Warren, the first dean of Harvard Medical School, then painlessly removed…
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Painting by Robert C. Hinckley, "The First Operation Under Ether" depicting the public demonstration of October 16, 1846.
Panel from monument in Boston commemorating Morton's demonstration of the anesthetic use of ether.