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Newspaper announcement of the first operation under ether anesthesia.
First announcement of the surgical operation using ether anesthesia at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Photographs from "The Advent of Anesthesia" Film
In 1933, the Mallinckrodt Chemical Company produced a short silent file, “The Advent of Anesthesia”, depicting the experiments of W. T. G. Morton with ether anesthesia and recreating the first public demonstration of the operation on Gilbert Abbott…
Description of the Gilbert Abbott Operation at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Description of the first public demonstration of a surgical operation employing sulphuric ether as an anesthetic, the Morton inhaler, and the imperfect. etherization.