Several men’s lives were ruined by their discoveries. They might have been better off had they never heard of anesthesia.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Anesthesia keeps patients safely unconscious during surgery—though researchers are still learning exactly how it works. The age of ...

The magnificent cupola atop the Ether Dome surgical theater boasts shiny copper and windows that let natural light flood into the historic space. If you enter the main doors of Massachusetts General ...

“Yesterday morning, Dr. Morton, Dentist, No. 19 Tremont Row . . . visited the… hospital, and administered his preparation to produce sleep, to a person about to undergo the operation of the extraction ...

This article forms the opening chapter of a forthcoming publication, William Thomas Green Morton and the Discovery of Surgical Anesthesia, by the late William W. Ford, M.D., D.P.H., emeritus professor ...