The semi-centennial of anaesthesia
Subtitle: October 16, 1846, October 16, 1896
Publisher: Massachusetts General Hospital
Published: 1897
Place of publication: Boston, Massachusetts
Number of pages: 95
Subjects: Anaesthesia; History
Notes: "Commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the first public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, October 16th 1846." -- p. [3]

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Royal College of Physicians, London.
Table of contents: title: Address of welcome, by C. H. Dalton.; title: Reminiscences of 1846 by R. T. Davis.; title: Surgery before the days of anaesthesia, by J. Ashhurst, Jr.; title: What has anaesthesia done for surgery, by D. W. Cheever.; title: Relation of anaesthesia and obstetrics, by J. P. Reynolds.; title: The influence of anaesthesia upon medical science, by W. H. Welch.; title: The surgery of the future, by C. McBurney.; title: The birth and death of pain, by S. W. Mitchell.