Ether Monument Boston (2 results)

Photographie,Tirage vintage stéréo, légendé // Circa 1880 // tirage d'époque // Format (cm): 8,5x17.

Photographie, gedruckt als Lithographie, ca. 1880, 168 x 105 mm. he Ether Monument, unveiled in Boston's Public Garden in 1868. The granite statue atop the 40-foot obelisk is a representation of the Good Samaritan comforting the afflicted. The inscription reads: "To commemorate the discovery that the inhaling of ether causes insensibility to pain - first proved to the world at the Mass. General Hospital in Boston - October AD MDCCCXLVI".…