Before it ever reached an operating room, ether was a party drug. College students and traveling showmen hosted “ether frolics,” inhaling the sweet-smelling gas for laughs — until a Boston dentist watched a man stumble through one of those parties without feeling a thing, and wondered if it could stop the screaming in his own surgery room. This is the real story of the ether inhaler, from carnival sideshows to the 1846 operation that changed surgery forever.
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