ID: 700006939 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700006939	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Early Operation Using Ether for Anesthesia (daguerreotypes (photographs); Southworth & Hawes (American, active 1844 - 1862) (American ...; late spring 1847; J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los A...; 84.XT.958)

Note: Early medical operation using ether for anesthesia showing doctors and patient around the operating table. Made at the teaching amphitheatre of Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital.

Titles:

Early Operation Using Ether for Anesthesia (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,,)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

daguerreotypes (photographs) [300127181] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>, photographs, <photographs by form>, positives (photographs), direct positives)

Classifications:

photographs (preferred)

Creation Date: late spring 1847

Creator Display:

Southworth & Hawes (American, active 1844 - 1862) (American Daguerreotypist) [preferred,JPGM]

Southworth & Hawes (American photography studio, 1843-1861) [500115209]

Locations:

Current: J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500329598] J. Paul Getty Museum, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 84.XT.958

Other: Creation: Boston [7013445] (Geographic)

Display Materials: Daguerreotype

	daguerreotype (process) [300053530]
	.......(Activities Facet, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name), <processes and techniques by specific type>, <image-making processes and techniques>, <photography and photographic processes and techniques>, photographic processes, direct positive processes)

Dimensions: Whole plateImage: 14.6 x 20 cm (5 3/4 x 7 7/8 in.)Mat: 18.9 x 24 cm (7 7/16 x 9 7/16 in.)Object: 21.7 x 26.7 cm (8 9/16 x 10 1/2 in.)

Cultures:

American (preferred)

General Subject:

genre (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	medicine (discipline) [300054518]
	.....(Activities Facet, Disciplines (hierarchy name), disciplines (concept), <science and related disciplines>, science (modern discipline), health sciences) (AAT)

	physicians [300025809]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by occupation>, <people in science-related occupations>, <people in health and medicine>) (AAT)

	surgery (health care function) [300137832]
	.....(Activities Facet, Functions (hierarchy name), functions (activities), <functions by specific context>, health care functions) (AAT)

Inscriptions: Inscribed verso backing, in brown ink, by Millet: "This belongs to / Josiah B. Millet / 88 Garden St. / Cambridge" and in pencil in unknown later hand, a numbered diagram of participants around the operating table, from left to right clockwise: "1. J. Mason Warren / 2. Henry G. Clarke / 3. [illeg.] / [4.] [illeg.] / [5.] Freeman J. Bumstead / 6. [illeg.] Townsend / 7. John C. Warren / 8. Chas. H. Hildreth." All retraced in ink by J. Millet.The diagram in pencil and surrounding notations are mostly illegible. Beaumont Newhall via Richard B. Holman describes the image as follows: "left foreground, John Mason Warren, M.D.; extreme left, George Hayward, M.D.; with left-arm akimbo, Solomon D. Townsend, M.D.; with hands on patient's thigh, John Collins Warren, M.D.; at extreme right, James Johnson, M.D. The figure administering ether is not Dr. Morton, but a stand-in. The patient is also a substitute." Note: inscriptions may or may not be by Millet, however, will stand until these can be fur

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Early Operation Using Ether for Anesthesia	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)

Subject: ....... [JPGM,VP]

Note:
English	..... [JPGM]
	..... J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)