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The first use of ether in dental surgery, 1846. Ernest Board.
Ernest Board
The first use of ether in dental surgery, 1846. Oil painting by Ernest Board, c. 1912. Illustrates the first use of ether as an anaesthetic in 1846 by the dental surgeon W.T.G. Morton (1819-1868).
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