| ETHER DAY QUIZ click on your answer |
First Question: ETHER DAY, the first public demonstration of anesthetics in a major operation, was October 16, 1846. In what year did Sir Humphry Davy first suggest in a well-known book that nitrous oxide could be used in an operation? 1. 1800 2. 1839 3 1844 Second Question: What did teen-agers call a party at which they inhaled ether just for fun? 1. An Ether afternoon 2. An Ether frolic 3. A fall down Third Question: William T.G. Morton, commonly credited with the discovery of inhalation anesthetics, was run out of which of the following cities for his activities as a con-man? 1. Rochester 2. Cincinnati 3. St. Louis |
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