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The Robinson‐Hooper connection *
Author(s) -
Macdonald A.,
Zuck D.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
anaesthesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.839
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1365-2044
pISSN - 0003-2409
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2006.04646.x
Subject(s) - medicine , connection (principal bundle) , inhalation , ether , chemist , anesthesia , engineering , mechanical engineering , organic chemistry , chemistry
Summary The search for a connection between James Robinson, the dental surgeon who on 19 December 1846 administered the first general anaesthetic in England by the inhalation of the vapour of ether, and William Hooper, the pharmaceutical chemist who produced the best publicised and most widely used of the early commercial ether vaporisers, has revealed hitherto unrecognised aspects of the early history of general anaesthesia.