EditorialEwer and basin Bowl, The round, curved bowl has a wide rim, with a corrugated contour interrupted by double bulges. It is driven with four large irregularly shaped fields in the flat and four small, heart-shaped fields in the edge. The fields are surro...
EditorialPrayer nut with The Nativity and The Adoration of the Magi, A small silver-coated prayer note, consisting of two miniature reliefs of the Nativity of Christ and the Adoration of the Magi. Both reliefs are made of boxwood and mounted in two hinged, silv...
EditorialEther, and wraps Mensor famous sky. This rich Hevelius Great ..., Portrait of Johannes Hevelius, signed: A. Stech pinxit; Lambertus Visscher sculp, frontispiece, Stech, Andreas (pinx.); Visscher, Lambertus de (sc.), Johannes Hevelius, Johann Ernst von ...
EditorialUse of Ether for Anesthesia. Date/Period: Late spring 1847. Photograph. Daguerreotype (Cased object). Height: 146 mm (5.74 in); Width: 200 mm (7.87 in).
EditorialAdd. 22689, ff.36-37 The 'Old foreigner from India.'. A Keepsake from the Cloud Gallery/Yuntai Xianrui. China, 1750. The 'Old foreigner from India' came from the West at the Time of the Martial Emperor of the Jin(3rd Century AD). He met two tigers stro...
EditorialAdd. 22689, ff.36-37 The 'Old foreigner from India.'. A Keepsake from the Cloud Gallery/Yuntai Xianrui. China, 1750. The 'Old foreigner from India' came from the West at the Time of the Martial Emperor of the Jin(3rd Century AD). He met two tigers stro...
EditorialUse of Ether for Anesthesia. Date/Period: Late spring 1847. Photograph. Daguerreotype (Cased object). Height: 146 mm (5.74 in); Width: 200 mm (7.87 in).
EditorialView on the Columbia, Cascades, 1867, Albumen silver print from glass negative, 40.0 x 52.4 cm (15 3/4 x 20 5/8 in.), Photographs, Carleton E. Watkins (American, 1829?1916), Beginning in the 1850s, photographers found a way to achieve the clarity of da...
EditorialEarly Operation Using Ether for Anesthesia; Southworth & Hawes, American, active 1844 - 1862; Boston, Massachusetts, United States, North America; late spring 1847; Daguerreotype; Whole plate, Image: 14.6 x 20 cm (5 3/4 x 7 7/8 in.), Mat: 18.9 x 24 cm ...
EditorialJuan Ceballos Gomez (died 1875). Professor of the Medical School od Cadiz.. Introducer of anesthesia with ether and chloroform. Engraving by Capuz.
EditorialMORTON GREEN, William Thomas (1819-1868). American dentist, who first successfully used ether as an anesthetic in surgery. Representation of an intervention at Bellevue Hospital in New York in 1870. The patient was operated without disinfection and eth...