An eye-witness account of the discovery of anesthesia / Ayer Washington.

1965

pages [30]-32 ; 24 cm

Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/3/45

Describes operation for the removal of a tumour carried out painlessly on 16th Oct. 1846 in the Massachusetts General Hospital. The anaesthetist was Dr. William T.G. Morton

Originally published in: Semi-centennial of anaesthesia. Boston : Houghton, 1897 ; p. 89-90.