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[GA] kenman78
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12:15 PM (Sep 11, 2010)
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today i will remember the men and woman who losed their lives for no reason. today i will remember the 2 towers. today i will remember everything that happpened today on 9/11
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broombetweenmylegs
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9:15 AM (Sep 29, 2010)
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William T.G. Morton participated in a public demonstration of ether anesthesia on October 16, 1846 at the Ether Dome in Boston, Massachusetts. However, Crawford Williamson Long, M.D., is now known to have demonstrated its use privately as a general anesthetic in surgery to officials in Georgia, as early as March 30, 1842, and Long publicly demonstrated ether's use as a surgical anesthetic on numerous occasions before 1846.[8]

Ether was sometimes used in place of chloroform because it had a higher therapeutic index, a larger difference between the recommended dosage and a toxic overdose. Ether is still the preferred anesthetic in some developing nations due to its high therapeutic index (~1.5-2.2) [9][dubious – discuss] and low price. Because of its associations with Boston, the use of ether became known as the "Yankee Dodge."

Ether could also be mixed with other anaesthetic agents such as chloroform to make C.E. mixture, or chloroform and alcohol to make A.C.E. mixture.

Today, ether is rarely used. The use of flammable ether was displaced by nonflammable anesthetics such as halothane. Additionally, ether had many undesirable side effects, such as postanesthetic nausea and vomiting. Modern anesthetic agents, such as methyl propyl ether (Neothyl) and methoxyflurane
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