What Happens to the Brain Under Anesthesia? (opens in new tab)

Molly McDonough at Harvard Magazine: On October 16, 1846, physicians filled the surgical amphitheater at Massachusetts General Hospital to watch dentist William Morton test a bold new idea. Morton held a glass inhaler filled with an ether-soaked sponge and asked a patient, Gilbert Abbott, to breathe in. Within minutes, Abbott lay motionless. Surgeon John Collins…