but ether is still safest and best. Enthusiastic centennial speakers noted that anesthesia has brought many boons to man besides easier human surgery: e.g., it made possible a vast amount of ...

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Anesthesia was first used during surgery in 1846. The drug provided at that time was ether. Now anesthesiologists more commonly use a combination of drugs like propofol and fentanyl which ...

Morton became the first to publicly demonstrate the use of diethyl ether as a general anesthetic at Massachusetts General ...

But there's a day also for anesthesia. Did you know that? MARTÍNEZ: No. For what? For people with no feelings? FADEL: (Laughter) No. It's World Ether Day. MARTÍNEZ: (Laughter). FADEL ...