A Chronological Table of Chief Events and Discoveries in the History of Anæsthesia

Nitrous Oxide

Joseph Priestley 1776

Humphry Davy 1800

Horace Wells (Colton, Riggs, Evans, Best) 1844

Alcohol

Collier 1835–42

Ether

Michael Faraday 1818

W. E. Clarke 1839

Crawford W. Long 1842

E. E. Marcy 1844

W. T. G. Morton 1846

Charles T. Jackson 1846

First surgical operation in America October 16, 1846

First surgical operation in Great Britain December 21, 1846

(Warren, Hayward, Bigelow, Boote, Robinson, Liston, Buchanan, Louget, Snow, Simpson, Bernard, Clover)

Chloroform

Guthrie 1831

Waldie 1847

James Young Simpson 1847

First surgical operation under chloroform, in Edinburgh November 15, 1847

(Soubeiran, Liebig, Dumas, Flourens, M. Duncan, G. Keith, Snow, Nunneley, James Arnott)

Cocaine

Gädeke 1855

Hughes Bennett 1874

Von Anrep 1880

Koller 1884

‘Wellcome’ Brand Chloroform, 1/4 lb. in drop bottle—exact size