Anaesthesia comes to Toronto in the mid-19th century.
In October 1846, Dr. William T. G. Morton and Dr. John Collins Warren conducted a successful public demonstration of the surgical use of ether at Massachusetts General Hospital. “The discovery of a mode of preventing pain in surgical operations has been an object of strong desire among surgeons from an early period,” explained Warren, in […]
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