M0000173: First demonstration of surgical anaesthesia by Dr William T. G. Morgan, 16th October 1846.

Date:: 22 July 1929

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/3/45

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        M0000173: First demonstration of surgical anaesthesia by Dr William T. G. Morgan, 16th October 1846.WT/D/1/20/1/3/45

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M0000173: First demonstration of surgical anaesthesia by Dr William T. G. Morgan, 16th October 1846. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced May 2020: First demonstration of surgical anaesthesia, 16th Oct 1846.

Description

Reproduction of a painting depicting the first demonstration of surgical anaesthesia on 16th October 1846, in the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA. The anaesthetist was Dr. William T.G. Morton. Published in Ayer, Washington: An eye-witness account of the discovery of anesthesia, 1965

Publication/Creation

22 July 1929

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

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