Scene believed to be a re-enactment of the demonstration of ether anesthesia by W.T.G. Morton on October 16, 1846. Mr. Holman with surgeons: John Mason Warren, George Hayward, Solomon D. Townsend, John Collins Warren and James Johnson around man on operating table.
Featured on PDR in the collection Reenactment of First Operation under Ether (ca. 1850)
Daguerrotype believed to show a re-enactment of the first operation in which a patient was succesfully anaesthetised with the use of ether. The man posed on the operating table is anonymous but the names given of some of the others standing around are a Mr. Holman and surgeons John Mason Warren, John Collins Warren, George Hayward, Solomon D. Townsend and James Johnson.
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Operating room of the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
Date
ca. 1907
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