On this day in 1846, Dr. Thomas Morton first used ether as an anesthetic, at Mass. General. This act is memorialized in the Public Garden by the Monument to Ether, reportedly the only monument to a drug in the United States.
On this day in 1846, Dr. Thomas Morton first used ether as an anesthetic, at Mass. General. This act is memorialized in the Public Garden by the Monument to Ether, reportedly the only monument to a drug in the United States.