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Apparatus for the inhalation of ether vapour. Pen and ink drawing with watercolour and bodycolour by Miss Wilson, ca. 1920.

The first use of ether in dental surgery, 1846. Oil painting by Ernest Board.

On the inhalation of the vapour of ether in surgical operations : containing a description of the various stages of etherization, and a statement of the result of nearly eighty operations in which ether has been employed in St. George's and University College Hospitals / By John Snow.

Ether and chloroform : their employment in surgery, dentistry, midwifery, therapeutics, etc / by J.F.B. Flagg.

Trials of a public benefactor : as illustrated in the discovery of etherization / by Nathan P. Rice.

Chemistry: stages in the production of ether, showing varous retorts in use on furnaces. Engraving, 17--.

On the inhalation of the vapour of ether in surgical operations / by John Snow ; edited by Akitomo Matsuki.

Ether : a brief account of its manufacture, chemical composition, congealing properties, etc. etc. / by Martin Henry Payne.

Crawford Williamson Long / by Frances Long Taylor.

Der Aether gegen den Schmerz / Von Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach.

M0009872: Letter to Messers Howard and Kent, January 1847, regarding ether supplies

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On the inhalation of the vapour of ether in surgical operations / by John Snow ; edited by Akitomo Matsuki.

Ether : a brief account of its manufacture, chemical composition, congealing properties, etc. etc. / by Martin Henry Payne.

Crawford Williamson Long / by Frances Long Taylor.

Der Aether gegen den Schmerz / Von Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach.

M0009872: Letter to Messers Howard and Kent, January 1847, regarding ether supplies