Caption
Operation, operating room, one of the first photos of an operation with general anesthesia from 1847. Surgeon: Dr. John Collins Warren. The anesthesia was only performed for the first time on October 16, 1846 by dentist William T. G. Morton in Boston. Previously, patients were always operated on without anesthesia. medicine, history of medicine, 1847, historical
Date
Jul 02, 1847
Credit line
Photo12/imageBROKER/Medical Image Archive
Reference
BRK26A68_178
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No
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Available size
82,9Mb (8,4Mb) / 20,0in x 16,1in / 6006 x 4826 (300dpi)