Rook A
Anaesthesia. 1975 Sep;30(5):677-82. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1975.tb00930.x.
A search through the files of a local newspaper, the Cambridge Chronicle, has brought to light in numerous references to ether anaesthesia during the years 1847 and 1848. From this and other sources it has been possible to establish that the first operation under ether was performed at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge on 2 January 1847, only 12 days after Liston's well known demonstration in London. By 13 March over fifty operations under ether had been successfully carried out at this hospital. The first experiences with ether at Wisbech, Cambridgeshire and Bury St Edmunds, West Suffolk are also described. It is suggested that much material important in determining the extent to which the practice of anaesthesia was rapidly adopted in the English provinces awaits the historian in the local newspaper, since the early experiences with anaesthesia were often not recorded in the Minute Books of hospital committees, and indeed, often took place outside the hospitals.
查阅当地报纸《剑桥纪事报》的档案发现，其中有大量关于1847年和1848年乙醚麻醉的记载。据此及其他资料可以确定，首例乙醚麻醉手术于1847年1月2日在剑桥的阿登布鲁克医院进行，这距利斯顿在伦敦的著名演示仅12天。到3月13日，该医院已成功实施了五十多例乙醚麻醉手术。还描述了在剑桥郡威斯贝奇和西萨福克郡伯里圣埃德蒙兹首次使用乙醚的情况。有人认为，当地报纸中有待历史学家发掘的大量重要资料，对于确定麻醉技术在英国各省份的迅速采用程度至关重要，因为早期的麻醉经历往往未记录在医院委员会的会议记录中，而且实际上，这些经历常常发生在医院之外。
