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First public demonstration of ether
October 16, 1846
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
Kenneth C. Zirkel · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
A dentist anaesthetised a patient before a sceptical surgical audience in October 1846, and the surgeon said afterwards that this was no humbug. Surgery without pain spread worldwide within months.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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