[Magdalen] An unusual experience

[Charles Wohlers]

Well, when you are next in Boston, you should visit the Ether Dome at Mass. 
General (http://www.massgeneral.org/history/exhibits/etherdome/), which 
dates to about the same time. It looks a bit like the place you visited, 
although (if memory serves right), is somewhat larger.

Chad Wohlers
who, thanks to his son, is far too familiar with Mass. General,
Woodbury, VT USA
chadwohl at satucket.com


-----Original Message----- 
From: Roger Stokes
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 7:06 PM
To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: [Magdalen] An unusual experience

A couple of friends and I went down to London today to, among other
things, visit the Old Operating Theatre Museum
http://www.thegarret.org.uk/ close to London Bridge Station.  We were
invited to tag onto a talk being given to a group of pharmacy students
from Samford University in Alabama which certainly enhanced our visit.

Quite what they made of this primitive operating room in the attic of a
former church is unclear.  I must admit I am also a bit bemused at the
fact of a Christian University saying its faith pervades its teaching of
pharmaceutical practice.  Be that as it may the talk about medical
understanding and techniques in the 19th century was enlightening.  I am
thankful I was not alive back then, though I have experienced nitrous
oxide as an anaesthetic and we were told that ether masks are still used
by doctors visiting parts of Africa to treat patients there.

Roger