The semi-centennial of anaesthesia : October 16, 1846, October 16, 1896.

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1897
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The semi-centennial of anaesthesia : October 16, 1846, October 16, 1896. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Boston, Massachusetts : Massachusetts General Hospital, 1897.

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95 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 26 cm

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"Commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the first public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, October 16th 1846." -- p. [3]

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Address of welcome, by C. H. Dalton.--Reminiscences of 1846 by R. T. Davis.--Surgery before the days of anaesthesia, by J. Ashhurst, Jr.--What has anaesthesia done for surgery, by D. W. Cheever.--Relation of anaesthesia and obstetrics, by J. P. Reynolds.--The influence of anaesthesia upon medical science, by W. H. Welch.--The surgery of the future, by C. McBurney.--The birth and death of pain, by S. W. Mitchell

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