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Re-enactment of the first operation under anesthesia (ether). The actual operation took place on October 16, 1846; this re-enactment took place shortly afterwards. Daguerrotype by the famed en:Southworth & Hawes partnership of Boston. Alas this image is not as good as many of their surviving works. This image is from the Library of Congress online collection, with information given below, and has long since passed into the public domain.

TITLE: Operating room of the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston

CALL NUMBER: LOT 11662 [item] [P&P]

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REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-67905 (b&w film copy neg.) No known restrictions on publication.

SUMMARY: 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.

MEDIUM: 1 photographic print.

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Photo, copyrighted, of daguerreotype by Southworth & Hawes, ca. 1850.

Reference copy may be in SSF - Anesthesia.

This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Caption card tracings: Anesthesia; BI; Ph. Ind.; Hospitals; Geogr.; Shelf.

REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGITAL ID: (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3b15373 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b15373

CARD #: 2004667744
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Author Southworth & Hawes
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Re-enactment of the first operation under anesthesia (ether). The actual operation took place on October 16, 1846; this re-enactment took place shortly afterwards. Daguerrotype by Southworth & Hawes, c. 1846-1847

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