• Anaesthesia · Jun 2006

    Biography Historical Article

    The Robinson-Hooper connection*.

    • A Macdonald and D Zuck.
    • NATO PA Secretariat, Brussels, Belgium.
    • Anaesthesia. 2006 Jun 1;61(6):553-6.

    AbstractThe 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.

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