| Y/M/D | Description | Place |
|---|---|---|
| 1841/00/00 | At his home in Plymouth, Massachusetts, Charles T Jackson experiments with the anesthetic effects of ether, 1841-1842. | Mayflower House Museum, Plymouth, MA |
| 1842/03/30 | Dr Crawford W Long use ether for surgical anesthesia while removing a tumor from the neck of a patient, James M Venable. Crawford W Long Museum can be found at 28 College St, Jefferson GA. | Jefferson Historic District, Jefferson |
| 1844/03/00 | Morton enrolls at Harvard Medical School, taught by Charles Jackson, and learns that the common organic solvent sulfuric ether can render a person unconscious (Mason St, Boston). | |
| 1844/04/00 | Charles Jackson advises Morton to apply chloric ether to the sensitive gums of a patient (Miss Parrot of Gloucester, MA) who wished to have a cavity filled | |
| 1845/01/00 | Horace Wells demonstrates the anodyne (painkilling) properties of nitrous oxide gas, the patient cries out in pain and the audience of students jeer | Ether Dome, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston |
| 1846/06/00 | William Morton buys bottles of ether from a local chemist and begins experimenting on fish, dogs and other animals | |
| 1846/09/30 | William T G Morton uses ether for pain relief while extracting a tooth | |
| 1846/10/15 | William Morton invents an instrument that can deliver ether by inhalation during an operation. | |
| 1846/10/16 | John Collins Warren removes a portion of a tumor from Edward Abbott's neck, the patient was anesthetized with ether | Ether Dome, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston |
| 1849/00/00 | Dr Long continues the use of the ether anesthetic and the results of his trials are published in The Southern Medical and Surgical Journal. |
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| Medicine: | Anesthesia |
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