Today is an Ether Day

Celebrating the Ether Day at Mass General Hospital, where the first anesthesia was used!

On October 16, 1846, a dentist William Morton anesthetized a patient while Dr. Warren, a senior surgeon, removed a hemangioma under the jaw, with the use of Ether as an anesthesia - the first successful public demonstration of anesthesia at the MGH's Ether Dome. Today is now celebrated world wide as Ether Day. A prominent MGH's surgeon at that time, Dr. Jacob Bigelow, wrote a letter to his friend in London about the success, it made the news a couple months later since it arrived by mail boat!

Painless operation is not to be taken for granted! It's safe anesthesia that makes complicated procedures such as invasive surgery or special radiology exams available to normally uncooperative patients.

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