ANESTHESIA USE began in 1846, as shown in this first-ever photograph of surgery using ether, at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Image: STANLEY B. BURNS, M.D./The Burns Archive
By Lisa Melton
This article was originally published with the title Count to 10.
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