Today's Find: This 1936 silent film reenacts the Oct 16, 1846 use of ether anesthesia at Mass General Hospital "Ether Dome" in Boston bit.ly/1vqe4ir #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory Available on YouTube

Today's Photo: Inside the Ether Dome some years ago when I visited the Boston site of the first public anesthesia demonstration on 16 Oct 1846. Is that John Collins Warren's original projector there? tinyurl.com/hb5tm9o #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory

Today's Music: Composer/musician Richard Bone's 1999 album "Ether Dome," inspired by the events there in Boston on 16 Oct 1846 tinyurl.com/ydd82upk #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory

2001 Oct 16: Medical historian Barbara Duncum died. She published a major history, “Development of Inhalation Anaesthesia” in 1947. Still a classic; available at the Internet Archive: tinyurl.com/396z594k #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory

Today's Find: "What November May Bring: The First 37 Days of Surgical Anesthesia" after William Morton's demonstration 16 Oct 1846 at Mass Gen Hosp tinyurl.com/yacrsnha #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory

2010 Oct 14: Patrick Sim died;. He served 39 years as librarian at the American Society of Anesthesiology's Wood Library-Museum & was a great friend & mentor to me. A 2004 video interview is available at tinyurl.com/yjym52k3 #anesthesiahistory #medicalhistory

1862 Jan 10: Samuel Colt died. He toured the U.S. in the 1830's with nitrous oxide demonstrations to raise money for revolver production. This newspaper item is from Albany NY 14 Oct 1833 tinyurl.com/y66wvpqa #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory

805 Oct 13: Japanese doctor Hanaoka Seishu performed his first breast cancer operation with "tsusensan" as an oral general anesthetic. He did dozens more tinyurl.com/5hh2xs82 #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory

1947 Oct 13: In Britain Woolley & Roe received spinal anesthesias & developed permanent paraparesis tinyurl.com/mqmbhox Famous trial resulted #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory

1996 Oct 12: Obstetric anesthesia & public health pioneer Robert A. Hingson died tinyurl.com/4tnrmdxf Born 13 April 1913 #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory

1926 Apr: Last Anesthesia & Analgesia quarterly supplement to the "American Journal of Surgery" published; first in Oct 1914 tinyurl.com/pwnhyhm Edited by FH McMechan #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory First issue of jrnl by that name published in 1922; continues today

Today’s Find: A.J. Wright, “Humphry Davy’s Small Circle of Bristol Friends” in the “Middle East J Anesthesiology” 13(3):233-279, 1995 tinyurl.com/knnc7mnv #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory #humphrydavy #thomasbeddoes

1883 Oct 9: Ralph M. Waters was born. With his work at the Univ of Wisconsin he became known as the "Father" of academic anesthesia in the U.S. tinyurl.com/bjgl9de He died 19 Dec 1979 tinyurl.com/27nh4pt2 #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory

Today's Find: Newspaper article 9 Oct 1887 "Burglars & Chloroform" tinyurl.com/wzqxl8d "Burglars Do Not Use It" #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory

1894 Oct 7: Physician Oliver Wendell Holmes died. In a Nov 1846 letter to William Morton he suggested the word "anaesthesia" for the effect of ether inhalation for surgery bit.ly/1086ZeF & tinyurl.com/ybk9u5v4 #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory

Today’s Find: One of my articles, “See You in the Funny Papers: Anesthesia in Cartoons & Comics” Int Cong Series, 2002, pp 547-551 tinyurl.com/48dcm7bh #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory #medicalcartoons #medicalcomics

2006 Oct 6: Expert in pediatric anesthesia etc C. Ronald Stephen died tinyurl.com/pfaokvt Also prominent in the anesthesia history community & certainly a mentor to me on that subject #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory

Today’s Find: 3 Oct 1885 newspaper article on “Ancient Anaesthetics” tinyurl.com/ybnh2mxg #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory

1885 Sept 27: Newspaper item "Curiosities of Local Anaesthesia" About two items in the Sept 19 issue of the "New York Medical Journal" #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory

1888 Sept 26: Poet T.S. Eliot was born "Like a patient etherized upon a table" said his character Prufrock tinyurl.com/6p8hb Eliot died 4 Jan 1965 #histmed #medicalhistory #anesthesiahistory