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Historic daguerreotype representing Parkman's ether surgery prosecuted at Massachusetts General Hospital on December 9, 1846.

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Identifications of the surgeons, left to right: Charles Bertody (1824–1893)–unverified, Solomon David Townsend (1793-1869), Charles Frederick Heywood (1823-1893)–unverified, Daniel Denison Slade (1823-1896), Augustus Addison Gould (1805-1866), ward attendant, John Call Dalton (1825-1889), Samuel Parkman (1816-1854), Jonathan Mason Warren (1811-1867), Henry Jacob Bigelow (1818-1890). According to Rowley (2022) the patient's name is William Eckels, whose dislocated shoulder was treated by Dr. Samuel Parkman. Rowley attributions and scholarship published online: "Notes on the iconography of the first ether surgeries."


Identifications of record include, from left to right: John C. Dalton, M.D. (1825–1889)–unverified, Solomon Davis Townsend, M.D., Charles Frederick Heywood, M.D.–unverified, unknown, Augustus Addison Gould, M.D., attendant, unknown, Henry Jacob Bigelow–unverified, Jonathan Mason Warren, M.D., Ebenezer H. Frost (1824–1865)–unverified. Attributions from Haridas, Lowry & Lowry, et al.

Formerly incorrectly attributed to Richard St. Clair and called the St. Clair daguerreotype.
Date Taken on 9 December 1846
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"Photographs of Early Ether Anesthesia in Boston: The Daguerreotypes of Albert Southworth and Josiah Hawes."

Anesthesiology 7 (2010), vol. 113, p. 13-26. doi:10.1097/ALN.0b013e3181de6f41
Author Rajesh Parsotam Haridas, M.B.Ch.B., F.A.N.Z.C.A.
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Josiah Johnson Hawes (1808-1901) of the photographic firm, Southworth and Hawes.
Medium Whole plate daguerreotype.
Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, on loan from Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
institution QS:P195,Q809600
Accession number
object no. 3.1979
Source/Photographer Haridas, RP (2010), "Photographs of early ether anesthesia in Boston. The daguerreotypes of Albert Southworth and Josiah Hawes." In: Anesthesiology. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; vol. 113, p. 13-26. doi:10.1097/ALN.0b013e3181de6f41

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