Macdonald A, Zuck D
NATO PA Secretariat, Brussels, Belgium.
Anaesthesia. 2006 Jun;61(6):553-6. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.2006.04646.x.
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.
1846年12月19日，牙科医生詹姆斯·罗宾逊通过吸入乙醚蒸汽在英国实施了首例全身麻醉。药剂师威廉·胡珀制作了早期商业乙醚蒸发器中宣传最广、使用最普遍的一款。探寻这两人之间的联系，揭示了全身麻醉早期历史中迄今未被认识的一些方面。
