print email comment close "We Have Conquered Pain": A Celebration of Ether 1846-1996 URL: http://neurosurgery.mgh.harvard.edu/History/ether1.htm Description: This site celebrates the 150th anniversary of "one of the greatest moments in medicine ... [when] William T.G. Morton, a Boston dentist, demonstrated the use of ether during surgery" at Massachusetts General Hospital. Features brief background about "the controversy surrounding four men who each claim to be the first to discover the means to prevent pain during surgery." Also includes a discussion of surgery before anesthesia and the development of anesthesia. From Massachusetts General Hospital. Publisher: Massachusetts General Hospital Neurosurgical Service Extra Keywords Harvard Medical School LII Database Information: Record 22475 created by Maria Brandt on 08/28/2006 Last modification on 08/28/2006 Published: 08/30/2006   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/22475