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On 16 October 1846, an itinerant New England dentist named William T. G. Morton proved the anesthetic effect of diethyl ether in a public demonstration in the "ether dome" of the Bulfinch Building of the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. The patient, Gilbert Abbott, suffered no pain, and the surgeon, Dr. John C. Warren, was able to complete a suture ligature of a vas cular tumor of the jaw without the hurry that until then was so necessary. The operation proved a failure, since the tumor recurred; but the demonstration of ether's anesthetic effect was a great success. Operative pain was conquered, and surgery could advance from a crude and unscientific practice where speed was paramo...
This updated and revised manual presents physiologic and pharmacologic information on cardiac anaesthesia. It contains new chapters on mechanical circulatory assist and heart transplantation. Information on new drugs and interoperative material are also included.
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
A "history of the bench and bar in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania during the past 250 years."
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