American medical student William E. Clarke of…

January 1842 CE

American medical student William E. Clarke of Berkshire Medical College in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, becomes the first person to administer an inhaled anesthetic, to facilitate a surgical procedure: a dental extraction performed in January 1842.

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