On October 16, 1846, the American dentist William T.G. Morton successfully demonstrated the use of inhaled ether anaesthesia at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, an event widely considered a turning point in modern surgery.
Their use had previously been recorded in ancient Chinese texts, but now the first physical evidence confirming this has been found.
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The paper was published on Tuesday in the peer-reviewed journal Antiquity.

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