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JULY 17, 2024

At the end of World War I, anesthesia in America was ready for rapid improvements stimulated, as is often the case, ...

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In the final episode of this season, we turn our focus to the present to see how recent research might shape the ...

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The early discoverers of anesthesia ether and chloroform sparked a new era in medicine, but it was the achievements ...

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Episode 2—After the discovery of chloroform and ether in the 1840s, it might have seemed like a golden age in ...

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Happy Ether Day!—Introducing Season 3 of the “The Etherist” podcast. Exactly 175 years ago, ...

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Last year, the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine at Penn State College of Medicine celebrated ...

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Before the discovery of ether anesthesia, surgery was an excruciating experience for patients, their loved ones and ...

OCTOBER 5, 2021

An excerpt from the new book entitled “Leadership in Anaesthesia. Five Pioneers of the Deadly Quest for ...

OCTOBER 18, 2020

The 1918 pandemic swept through the United States in three phases with the worst casualties occurring in October ...

MAY 28, 2020

The American Civil War is as much a story of disease as it is of battles won and lost. And catastrophic drug ...

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Only bestowed every four years, the next honoree of the coveted “Laureate of the History of Anesthesia” ...

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018