In a corner in Boston's Public Garden, near the intersection of Arlington Street and Marlborough Street, stands an obscure monument that commemorates a medical breakthrough—the use of ether as an anesthetic. At the top of the monument is a sculpture depicting the famous Biblical story of the Good Samaritan caring an injured stranger he met on the road.
The first public demonstration of ether as an anesthesia was conducted at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1846 by Boston dentist William Thomas Green Morton and doctor John Collins Warren. Morton administered the ether, and Warren then removed a tumor from the neck of an unconscious patient.
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The Ether Monument in Boston
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