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Ether Dome

Ether Dome
Photo: Adam Lenhardt, CC BY-SA 3.0 (licence)

The Ether Dome is a surgical operating amphitheater in the Bulfinch Building at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It served as the hospital's operating room from its opening in 1821 until 1867. It was the site of the first public demonstration of the use of inhaled ether as a surgical anesthetic on October 16, 1846, otherwise known as Ether Day.

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