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DescriptionSouthworth & Hawes - First etherized operation (re-enactment).jpg
Image of an early ether operation, misidentified in the Congressional Library catalog as a "re-enactment" of the historic Abbott surgery that took place on October 16, 1846. According to Rowley (2022), the view captures an exploratory and intervention surgery for a young Portuguese sailor's diseased fibula. Although Manuel was Townsend's patient, Dr. John Collins Warren was the lead surgeon who prosecuted the operation on July 3, 1847. Warren's case notes for the surgery are published in Volume 2 of his biography. Rowley scholarship published online [1]
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2005-10-29 18:27 Daderot 1536×1212×8 (947201 bytes) {{PD}}Re-enactment of the first operation under anesthesia (ether). The actual operation took place on October 16, 1846; this re-enactment took place shortly afterwards. Daguerrotype by the famed Southworth & Hawes partnership of Boston. Alas this image i
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Daguerrotype by Southworth & Hawes. The first in a sequence of three views of an historic ether operation, prosecuted at Mass. General Hospital on July 3, 1847.