Ether

The record of his first operation was only entered in his ledger.

James Venable, 1842, Ether and Excising Tumor, $2.00 He waited to test the ether more thoroughly in some greater operation than those in which he had yet tried it, and then he would have published his account of it.

While he was waiting, others began to stir more actively in busier places, where his work was quite unknown, not even heard of.

Among those with whom, in his unlucky visit to Boston, Wells talked of his use of the nitrous oxide, and of the great discovery which he believed that he had made, were Dr. Morton and Dr. Charles Jackson, men widely different in character and pursuit, but inseparable in the next chapter of the history of anesthetics.

Medicine Use of cocaine as local anesthetic first introduced by Karl Kohler, German Jew.

Ether first demonstrated to the world in surgical operation by William Morton, a Scot.

First successful operation on human heart performed by Daniel H. Williams, Negro.

Schick diphtheria test developed by Dr. Bela Schick, Hungarian Jew.