Credit for the first use of ether anaesthesia probably belongs to Crawford Lotlg Ln 1842.1 Howevcl, W.E. Clarke had also administered ether for a dental extraction in Rochester, New York in January, 1842, 2 two months before Long used it in Jefferson, Georgia. The use of this agent did not become widespread until four years laler following the first public demonstration of ether anaesthesia by William Morton at the Massachusettes General Hospital. On October 16, 1846, Morton administered ether ("Letheon") to Gilbert Abbott for the excision of a neck turnout by John C. Warren, Professor of Surgery at Harvard) The news of surgical operations performed during insensibility spread rapidly. Reports of the use of ether appeared in medical journals and the lay press of the Eastern United States. There is also substantial agreement that ether was first used in Britain on December 19, 1846, in London and Dumfries simultaneously, a There is no agreement, however, on its first use in Canada. Evidence published to date is inconclusive. Matsuki, in his detailed history of ether anaesthesia in Canada gives a verified chronology. 5
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