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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

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

Sir J. Y. Simpson and two friends, having tested chloroform on themselves, lying insensible on the floor around a table. Pen and ink drawing.

Anaesthesia: painting depicting use of ether

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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Ether

Images from the collections

Images about Ether

Works from the collections

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

Ether

Images from the collections

Images about Ether

Works from the collections

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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