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A charity hospital and a public test: how Massachusetts General became the stage for ether

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WikipediaWikipedia: Massachusetts General Hospital, Ether Dome section (16 October 1846 demonstration)
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On 16 October 1846, after administration of ether by Morton, MGH Chief of Surgery, John Collins Warren, painlessly removed a tumor from the neck of a local printer, Edward Gilbert Abbott.
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