[Conquerors of pain]
- Collection:
- Images from the History of Medicine (IHM)
- Author(s):
- Thom, Robert A. (Robert Alan), 1915-1979, artist
- Contributor(s):
- Parke, Davis & Company, issuing body.
- Publication:
- [Detroit] : Parke, Davis & Company, [1961?]
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Still image
- Subject(s):
- Anesthesia -- history Operating Rooms Ether Physicians
- Genre(s):
- Pictorial Works
- Abstract:
- Reproduction of an oil painting (created betweem 1945 and 1979) by Robert Thom. "Before a skeptical group of surgeons in the operating amphitheater of Massachusetts General Hospital, October 16, 1846, William T.G. Morton, Boston Dentist, prepared to anesthetize Dr. John C. Warren's surgical patient, Gilbert Abbott, by causing him to enhale ether. Though Crawford W. Long, Georgia Physician, had used ether for anesthesia in 1842, and Horace Wells, Connecticut Dentist, tried unsuccessfully to demonstrate anesthesia with nitrous oxide in 1845, reports of painless operations resulting from Morton's methods gave practical anesthesia to mankind. Within a year ether was being used world-widely to conquer pain incident to surgical procedures." -- University of Michigan Museum of Art: Conquerors of pain.
- Copyright:
- This item may be under copyright protection. Please ask copyright owner for permission before publishing.
- Copyright Holder:
- Pfizer; Source: Research; Research date: 06/23/2015
- Extent:
- 1 print : 25 x 32 cm
- Technique:
- color
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101651395 (See catalog record)
- NLM Image ID:
- C06362
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101651395