The operations performed on two successive days at the modern Pontiac Osteopathic Hospital in Michigan could not be considered dangerous. Nonetheless they turned into a nightmare of anesthetic error, ...

(WHTM) It was the most amazing surgery of the 1840s, the procedure you read about in all the history books. It’s the one depicted in paintings. It brought the concept of general anesthesia to doctors ...

There are all sorts of fascinating artifacts in the collection of the Vigo County History Center that stem from the age of invention. That is from about the 1860s through the turn of the 20th century.