A mobile, very volatile, highly flammable liquid used as an inhalation anesthetic and as a solvent for waxes, fats, oils, perfumes, alkaloids, and gums. It is mildly irritating to skin and mucous membranes.
    

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

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.

Anaesthesia: Ether can, c.1930

Use of ether at the Massachusetts General Hospital, 1847

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