An account of the first use of sulphuic ether by inhalation as an anaesthetic in surgical operations / Crawford W. Long.

1965

pages [108]-115 ; 24 cm

Long claims to have administered ether for surgical anaesthesia on 30 March, 1842. This article is his first report of the incident and claim to the invention

Originally published: Southern Med. & Surg. J. (No. 12) 5 : Part I, Article 38 (Dec.) 1849. (Some paragraphs are omitted in the reprint.)