Show 5 ETHER FIRST USED IN BOSTON S In n 1844 Horace Wells Well a Dentist Madea Made 1 a Successful Experiment on Himself In 1844 Horace Wells dentist r Hartford Hart Hart- ford tord Conn Coon attended a lecture by C Colton Col- Col l- l ton tOD on nitrous arid gas In illustrating i ing the tho lecture ga gas W was 8 administered to one of ot the audience who became unconscious This led Wells to believe be be- lieve that that it might b be employed to render render render ren ren- der painless the extraction of teeth He tried tred It on hi himself and f found Und that c It WAS EO so During the same year rear William Norton Nor Nor- orton or- or ton toli a Boston Doston dentist he heard rd that sul- sul torte ether could be Inhaled in In- In small smallS S quantities to produce unconsciousness Accordingly he be experimented t d. d He was Insensible for tor eight eight- minutes On ref re recovering recovering re re- f covering he concluded con that ether ether might b be b. employed successfully I In surgical work On October 16 Morton administered administered ad ad- ministered ether to a patient In the Massachusetts general hospital In inS S Boston l It was in November 1847 that S Simpson Simp mpr mp r I son lon famous Scottish scientist of at Edinburgh Edinburgh Edin Edin- burgh resolved to try personally the ther r F Inh Inhalation laUon of chloroform Sitting with his hi friends Duncan and Keith around j a dinner table he proposed that they Inhale chloroform Each consented to 5 the test teat First their minds were livened liven liven- ed then they fell tell into a deep stupor Simpson recovering first found Duncan Dun Duncan Duncan Dun Dun- I can snoring on the floor and Keith sensible hall struggling to r regain gl ln th the chair from which he haJJ had fallen tallen |