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Richard Ellis (1937-1995)

Lectures by Richard Hancock Ellis and associated research papers and other papers

Early ether anaesthesia: the English patent for ether

Early ether anaesthesia: the identity of Miss Lonsdale

Inhalational Anaesthesia: the genesis of scientific thought

Inhalational Anaesthesia: Past, Present and Future. Royal Society of Medicine, 5 Nov 1993

Early ether anaesthesia: the enigma of Robert Liston. History of Anaesthesia Society meeting, Reading 1986.

Programmes for meetings of the History of Anaesthesia Society, 1987-1990

History of Anaesthesia related illustrations

Dr. Melvin Earles: Transcriptions

"RHE’s history notes"

Draft papers and publications and Ellis biographical notes

James Robinson and introduction of Anaesthesia

Robert Liston’s letter to Dr Francis Boott: It's reappearance after 135 years

Early anaesthesia in London

Edinburgh threads in the tapestry of early British anaesthesia. Edinburgh, 8th July 1989

Early ether anaesthesia: the Anglo-American connections. London, 6th March 1991

The Site of the First Anaesthetic given in England

The introduction of ether anaesthesia to Great Britain. 3 parts, published in Anaesthesia in 1976-77

Early ether anaesthesia: calendar of events

Early ether anaesthesia: general introduction and contents of thesis

A tale of two cities: Charles Dickens and Chloroform, by A. J. Carter

Presidential addresses by W. D. A. Smith and C. S. Ward

Early ether anaesthesia: the trans-Atlantic mail service in 1846

Early ether anaesthesia: the news of anaesthesia spreads to the UK

Early ether anaesthesia: Edward Everett’s diary

Early ether anaesthesia: the Cambridge artefacts

Henry Souttar and mitral valve surgery

The beginnings of anaesthesia: the Haemaccell Lecture

No laughing matter: historical aspects of anaesthesia. London, 8th June 1987

About the participants in the Hyderabad Chloroform Commissions (1888-1889), by Momin Ali and Asrit Ramachari. Read by Ellis, Atlanta, 29th March, 1992

Edward Lawrie and the Hyderabad Chloroform Commissions, by A. Ramachari. Read by Ellis, London, 23rd July 1987

19th century correspondence and papers

History of St Bartholowmew's Hospital

Edinburgh

Robinson and Snow

Chloroform

Robert C. Hinckley and the painting of the ‘First Operation under Ether', by Richard Wolfe

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Robert C. Hinckley and the painting of the ‘First Operation under Ether', by Richard Wolfe

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