Ether Inhaler
date: label: date made
content: about 1846
name: label: user
content: Flagg, John Foster Brewster
notes: label: Description
content: An inscription on this inhaler suggests that the dentist John F. B. Flagg used it to test "ether as ether" on November 28, 1846. That is, to prove that the "Letheon" that William Morton used in his demonstration of anesthesia, at the Massachusetts General Hospital on Friday, October 16, 1846, was actually ether.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Anesthesiology
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
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content: Cancer
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content: Cancer: Treatment
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of University of Pennsylvania School of Dentistry
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: MG.M-09244
label: catalog number
content: M-09244
label: accession number
content: 218383
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Inhaler, Ether
label: Object Name
content: ether inhaler
label: Object Name
content: inhaler, anesthesia
label: Other Terms
content: Inhaler, Ether; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass; natural sponge; wood; paper; ink; grass; horn; metal; textile (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall, inhaler: 10 1/4 in x 14 in x 12 in; 26.035 cm x 35.56 cm x 30.48 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall, breathing tube, coiled: 2 in x 8 5/8 in x 16 in; 5.08 cm x 21.9075 cm x 40.64 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 in x 12 1/2 in x 12 in; 27.94 cm x 31.75 cm x 30.48 cm
label: Measurements
content: tube: 2 in x 2 1/2 in x 33 in; 5.08 cm x 6.35 cm x 83.82 cm