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Photographs of Early Ether Anesthesia 0perations at Massachusetts General Hospital
Reproductions of daguerreotypes of early operations employing ether anesthesia at Massachusetts General Hospital.
"Michael Faraday, D.C.L., F.R.S."
Line engraving after Henry Anelay.
"Wm. T. G. Morton, M.D. surgeon dentist, Boston, administering ether preparatory to performing the operation by which he first discovered and demonstrated the marvellous anaesthetic powers of ether in surgery"
Engraving "Wm. T. G. Morton, M.D. surgeon dentist, Boston, administering ether preparatory to performing the operation by which he first discovered and demonstrated the marvellous anaesthetic powers of ether in surgery."
Morton-type ether inhaler with sponge and presentation inscription from T. G. Morton to J. Mason Warren.
Photograph of Morton-type ether inhaler with sponge and presentation inscription from T. G. Morton to J. Mason Warren.
Newspaper announcement of the first operation under ether anesthesia.
First announcement of the surgical operation using ether anesthesia at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Photograph of W. T. G. Morton.
Photograph of W. T. G. Morton.
Report of the Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts General Hospital, Presented to the Corporation, at their Annual Meeting, January 26, 1848.
Conclusions of a committee inquiring into the claims of W. T. G. Morton and Charles T. Jackson over the credit for the discovery of ether anesthesia.
Insensibility during Surgical Operations Produced by Inhalation
Article from the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal describing first surgical operations using ether anesthesia.
List of Patients Who Have Inhaled Ether or Chloroform for Surgical Operations in the Massachusetts General Hospital
List of patients who have inhaled ether or chloroform for surgical operations in the Massachusetts General Hospital up to April 1, 1848, furnished by H. J. Bigelow, M.D.
Invitation to the Semi-Centennial of Anaesthesia Celebration
Invitation to the commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the first public demonstration of surgical anesthesia, signed by William Sturgis Bigelow and J. Collins Warren.
Sixth plate cased daguerreotype of Phineas Gage (1823-1860), circa 1855.
Sixth plate (2 3/4" x 3 1/4") cased daguerreotype of post-injury Phineas Gage. Portrait-style image depicts Gage holding the tamping iron that caused his 1848 frontal lobe injury. Bar marked with inscription from the Warren Anatomical Museum. As with…
Oral History and a Transcript for an Interview with Alvin Poussaint, Perspectives of Change
Alvin F. Poussaint is Professor of Psychiatry, Faculty Associate Dean for Student Affairs, Director of the Office of Recruitment & Multicultural Affairs at Harvard Medical School. Images are used with permission for Perspectives of Change: The Story…
Louis T. Wright and colleagues at patient bedside, Harlem Hospital, New York, N.Y.
Louis Tompkins Wright, MD (1891-1952) was born on July 23, 1891, in La Grange, Georgia, was son of physician Dr. Ceah Ketcham Wright. Dr. Wright died when Louis was four years old, and his mother, Lula Tompkins Wright, later remarried another…
Mildred Fay Jefferson
Mildred Fay Jefferson (1926-2010) was born on April 4, 1926 in Pittsburg, Texas. She earned her bachelor's degree from Texas College at age 16, and earned her master's degree from Tuft's University in 1947.
She entered Harvard Medical School as…
She entered Harvard Medical School as…
William Augustus Hinton
William A. Hinton (1883-1959) was born on December 15, 1883 in Chicago, Illinois. His parents were both enslaved. He entered Harvard College in 1902 and graduated in 1905. Between undergrad and medical school, Hinton taught at Walden University in…
Martin Robison Delany
Martin Robison Delany (1812-1885) was born in Virginia, his father was enslaved while his mother was a free woman. Delany applied to Harvard Medical School at age 38, and had applied to several medical schools. He was a student of Latin and Greek,…
Oral history and a transcript for an interview with Nancy Oriol, Perspectives of Change
Oral history and a transcript for an interview between Joan Ilacqua and Nancy Oriol. Taken 21 January 2015.[Click here to go to full transcript.]
Oral history and transcript for an interview with Alvin Crawford, Perspectives of Change
Alvin Crawford, MD, FACS, graduated cum laude from Tennesse State University in 1960, earning degrees in Chemistry and Music. In 1964, he became the first African American to graduate from the University of Tennessee College of Medicine.
Dr.…
Dr.…
Oral history and transcript for an interview with Howard Hiatt, Perspectives of Change
Oral history and a transcript for an interview between Joan Ilacqua and Howard Hiatt MD, Taken 19 February 2015 as part of Perspectives of Change, formerly the Equal Access Oral History Project.
Howard H. Hiatt MD was born in Patchogue, New York.…
Oral history and transcript for an interview with John C. Norman, Perspectives of Change
Oral history and a transcript between Joan Ilacqua, Sami Fouad and John Norman, MD,
Taken in two parts on 12 June 2014 and 23 June 2014 as part of Perspectives of Change, formerly the Equal Access Oral History Project.
Dr. Norman's oral…
Taken in two parts on 12 June 2014 and 23 June 2014 as part of Perspectives of Change, formerly the Equal Access Oral History Project.
Dr. Norman's oral…
Oral history and transcript for an interview with Ernesto Gonzalez, Perspectives of Change
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Oral history and a transcript between Joan Ilacqua and Ernesto Gonzalez-Martinez, MD, Professor of Dermatology at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. Taken 10 March 2015 as part of the Equal Access Oral History Project. Topics…
Oral history and transcript for an interview with J. Emilio Carrillo, Perspectives of Change
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Oral history and a transcript for an interview between Joan Ilacqua and J. Emilio Carrillo, MD. Taken 18 July 2017 as part of Perspectives of Change, formerly the Equal Access Oral History Project. J. Emilio Carrillo, MD was born in Cuba and attended…
Oral history and transcript for an interview with Valerie Montgomery-Rice, Perspectives of Change
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Oral history and a transcript for an interview between Joan Ilacqua and Valerie Montgomery-Rice. Dr. Montgomery-Rice is Dean and President of Morehouse School of Medicine.[Click here to go to full transcript.]
Oral history and transcript for an interview with Harold May, Perspectives of Change
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Oral history and a transcript between Joan Ilacqua and Harold May, MD. Taken 9 April 2015 and 11 May 2015 as part of Perspectives of Change, formerly the Equal Access Oral History Project.
Topics include growing up in Peekskils, New York,…
Topics include growing up in Peekskils, New York,…
Oral history and transcript for an interview with Eve Higginbotham, Perspectives of Change
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Oral history and a transcript between Joan Ilacqua and Eve j. Higginbotham, SM, MD, Vice Dean of Inclusion and Diversity at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Taken 20 September 2016 as part of Perspectives of Change,…
Oral history and a transcript for an interview with Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, Perspectives of Change
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Oral history and a transcript for an interview between Joan Ilacqua and Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MD, MBA, taken 2 May 2016 as part of Perspectives of Change. Dr. Lavizzo-Mourey is president emerita and former CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and…
Oral History and transcript for an interview with Lisa Iezzoni, Perspectives of Change
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Oral history and a transcript between Joan Ilacqua and Lisa Iezzoni, MD. Taken on 10 September 2015 as part of Perspectives of Change: The Story of Civil Rights, Diversity, Inclusion, and Access to Education at HMS and HSDM, formerly the Equal Access…
Oral history and a transcript for an interview with Andre Churchwell, Perspectives of Change
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Oral history and a transcript for an interview between Joan Ilacqua and Andre Churchwell, MD.
Andre L. Churchwell, MD, graduated from the Vanderbilt School of Engineering magna cum laude in 1975. He attended Harvard Medical School and earned his…
SEXUAL HARASSMENT is not a compliment. It's offensive and illegal. 1985
Pamphlet created in 1985 by the Joint Committee on the Status of Women detailing resources to those experiencing sexual harassment.
Procedures for the Resolution of Sexual Harassment and Unprofessional Conduct Problems, 1989
This document was created and provided by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, describing options and resources available to any member of the Faculty of Arts and Science community who believed that he or…
Oral history and a transcript for an interview with Augustus White, Perspectives of Change
Oral history and a transcript for an interview between Joan Ilacqua and Augustus A. White III MD, PhD. Dr. White is the Ellen and Melvin Gordon Distinguished Professor of Medical Education and Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Harvard Medical School…
Oral history and transcript for an interview with Shirley Marks, Perspectives of Change
Oral history and a transcript between Joan Ilacqua and Shirley Marks, MD. Taken 13 March 2017 as part of Perspectives of Change: The Story of Civil Rights, Diversity, Inclusion, and Access to Education at HMS and HSDM. Topics include growing up in…
Crawford W. Long, M.D. Discoverer of anaesthesia demonstrated on James M. Venables by the use of sulphuric ether at Jefferson, Jackson Co., Georgia, March 30th, 1842
An engraving of Crawford W. Long.
Inventory to the American Dental Association Department of Library Services records, 1885-2011 (inclusive), 1925-2011 (bulk)
A inventory (spreadsheet/xls) of the American Dental Association Department of Library Services records created by Center for the History of Medicine staff.Click to download:Inventory to the American Dental Association Department of Library Services…
Unsuccessful cases of anesthesia by ether inhalation
Surgeon George Hayward performed the second operation employing ether at Massachusetts General Hospital on October 17, 1847, and then the first capital operation—the successful amputation of a leg—later that year. The following year, on April 12th,…
First Case in Which Sulphuric Ether Was Exhibited by Inhalation in Labor
The passage displayed reproduces a letter from Nathan Cooley Keep (1800-1875), recounting the first use of ether anesthesia in labor; the patient was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s wife, Fanny, who gave birth to a daughter on April 7, 1847.
Charles T. Jackson Communicates the Ether Discovery
Jackson issued this publication “to interest both the Surgeon and the Solider, and with the intention of aiding the one and of informing the other” at the outbreak of the Civil War. The Manual provides illustrations and examples of cases from French…
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…
Studies for the First Operation under Ether
10 pencil sketches of heads and torsos of physicians made at the time of painting The First Operation under Ether. Two individuals are unidentified.
Self-Portrait in the Form of a Silhouette.
1 framed silhouette of Horace Wells.
Photograph of Charles T. Jackson.
Photograph of Charles T. Jackson.
Photograph of W. T. G. Morton.
Photograph of W. T. G. Morton.
Responses to the Interrogatories of R. H. Dana
At the request of William T. G. Morton, “to be preserved in perpetual remembrance of the thing,” sixteen physicians--John Collins Warren and Henry Jacob Bigelow among them--with knowledge of the circumstances surrounding the ether discovery and its…
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.
Subscription list for the Morton Testimonial Association
Subscription list to raise funds for support of W. T. G. Morton and his family.
Testimonies of Medical Students at Harvard to Horace Wells' Demonstration
Testimonial letters of William M. Cornell and Mason M. Miles in defense of Horace Wells.
Horace Wells' Demonstration of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School
Describes Wells' unsuccessful attempt to demonstrate anesthesia using nitrous oxide at Harvard in December 1844.
A. L. Peirson letter to W. T. G. Morton, 1847
Copy of a letter addressed to Morton, describing Peirson's successful surgical amputations employing ether anesthesia.