Show ETHER FIRST USED IN BOSTON in 1844 horace wells wella a dentie n mad a successful experiment 0 on himself in 1844 1944 horace wells dentist eke BA ford conn attended a lecture ty colton on nitrous gas in ing the lecture gas gag was wag to one of the audience who leant unconscious this led wells to 6 i lieve that it might be employed torea to eider painless the extraction of tedi ne he tried it on himself and found vat that it was go BO during the same year william not km ton a boston dentist heard that til sli auric ether could be inhaled in sual quantities to produce accordingly be experimented be vu insensible for eight minutes on OB m n covering he concluded that ether cism be employed successfully in surged work on october 16 1846 mortal ministered ether to a patient la in ti massachusetts general hospital hospit wd li 11 boston bigton it was in november 1847 that ela son ron famous scottish scientist of VIS ete burgh resolved to try personally 1 l inhalation of chloroform sitting it his hl friends duncan and keith a dinner table he proposed that tw inhale chloroform each consented to the test first their minds were lire ed then they fell into a deep sapa simpson recovering first found do dt can snoring on the floor and aad ba half balf sensible struggling to regain th b chair from which he had fallen |