The Harry Daly museum of the Australian Society of Anaesthetists has created an online exhibition of operating theatre activities that can’t be that long ago…faces and places within my lifetime!

http://harrydalymuseumoptheatres.com/designing-operating-theatres/

The Wood Library Museum of Anesthesiology presents a timeline of the history of anaesthesia  for the American Society of Anesthetists.

http://www.woodlibrarymuseum.org/history-of-anesthesia/#2014

William T Morton gave the first successful demonstration of ether anaesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital in 1846.

Less than a year later, William Russ Pugh did the same in Tasmania.

John Belisario, a dentist, also performed many anaesthetics in 1947 in Sydney.

These dates mark the beginning of extraordinary developments that led to what we know as modern anaesthesia.