Ether, short for diethyl ether, is one of the most important chemicals in history and its use as a general anesthetic is arguably one of the greatest discoveries of all time (1). Surgery before ...

(WHTM) It was the most amazing surgery of the 1840s, the procedure you read about in all the history books. It’s the one depicted in paintings. It brought the concept of general anesthesia to doctors ...

Virginia Loose used her “Receipt Book” into the 1880s, documenting various powders, liquids, chemicals, pigments and herbs that made up her recipes ...

Diethyl ether is a volatile, flammable liquid best known as one of the first surgical anesthetics, with a long history in medicine and chemistry. F-18 fighter nearly crashes into crowd on beach during ...

MIXTURES in several proportions of petroleum ether (boiling point 30°–60° C), diethyl ether and acetic acid have been widely used as solvents for the separation by thin layer chromatography on silica ...