Adam I. Levine • Satish Govindaraj
Samuel DeMaria, Jr.
Editors
2013
A View on Sharing the Airway It still is debated as to who deserves credit for administering the fi rst general anesthetic. Many credit Dr. William Morton, a dentist, for fi rst demonstrating ether anesthesia on October 16, 1846, in the “Ether Dome” of the Massachusetts General Hospital, since the case was published in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal in November 1846. The patient had a vascular tumor of the neck removed in the sitting position by the surgeon, John Collins Warren, without crying out in pain.