The operations performed on two successive days at the modern Pontiac Osteopathic Hospital in Michigan could not be considered dangerous. Nonetheless they turned into a nightmare of anesthetic error, ...

Rarely does a single event alter the course of medicine, but that is what happened at Boston’s Massachusetts General Hospital on Oct. 16, 1846. Dr. John Collins Warren, having just excised a growth ...

In 1846, a dentist and a surgeon tried something dramatically new: the first public operation performed with anesthesia. Armed with a glass globe filled with ether, they anesthetized a patient and ...

THE toxic effects of chloroform on the liver are well known and feared. Studies on animals have suggested a similar role for other anesthetic agents, particularly the ethers. Goldschmidt, Ravdin and ...

The older term "ether convulsions" is inappropriate since these attacks have been described as occurring as well under anesthesia employing nitrous oxide and oxygen, chloroform, vinethene, ethylene ...

The traumatic experience behind performing amputations, tumor removals and vasectomies without anesthesia is immediately intriguing when Playhouse patrons view the incredible set design by James ...

World Pirate Day, Chocolate Day - there's a day for just about everything. Do you have a favorite day, A? A MARTÍNEZ, HOST: Today - National Sports Day. FADEL: Is it National Sports Day today?

Greg Balla, Lee Sellars (seated), Tom Patterson and Richmond Hoxie act in a scene from "Ether Dome." (Courtesy T. Charles Erickson/Huntington Theatre) On Oct. 16, 1846, a flustered young man named ...