Intravenous anaesthesia on Turner's High Street

Dr Alessia Pannese explores a painted documentation of a relatively
little known event in Oxford local history: the first intravenous
anaesthesia during this TORCH Bite-Size talk at the Ashmolean
Museum LiveFriday The introduction of anaesthesia in medical
practice is generally attributed to American dentist William
Morton, who gave a public demonstration in Boston, Massachusetts,
in 1846. However, recent research indicates that a crucial attempt
was carried out by apothecary Robert Boyle in Oxford almost two
centuries earlier