Ether Day Revisited : The Surgical Records of Edward Gilbert Abbott

ABSTRACT:

Background:

The details of the public demonstration of the effects of ether that initiated the modern era of surgery and anesthesia are often misreported. Existing published transcripts of the clinical records are incomplete or inaccurate.

Methods:

The patient notes of Gilbert Abbott were photographed, transcribed, and reviewed.

Results:

The records are handwritten in “Surgical Records for 1846; Volume 30,” of the Massachusetts General Hospital. The patient was admitted on September 25. The presenting condition was a congenital, mobile, compressible, multilobed, small lesion at the angle of the left mandible, and base of tongue. The operation on October 16 was an attempted ligation of the blood supply to the lesion. The postoperative diagnosis was a vascular lesi

SUBMITTER: Firth P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10431558 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature