Ether Dome

Year

1821

Architect

Type

building

A surgical amphitheater atop Massachusetts General Hospital's Bulfinch Building, the Ether Dome witnessed the first public demonstration of surgical anesthesia on October 16, 1846, a moment that transformed medicine worldwide. Parris's dome …

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