ABSTRACT
Experiments on the other side of the Atlantic contributed to the development of practical anesthesia. Ether had served as a stimulant before Crawford Williamson Long (18151878) administered it to James Venables in Jefferson, Georgia, on March 30, 1842 as an aid in the surgical removal of a neck tumor. By December of 1844, Horace Wells (18151848) had employed nitrous oxide in his dental practice. On October 16, 1846, William Thomas Green Morton (1819-1868) anesthetized Golbert Abbott with ether for the surgical removal of a neck tumor at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
