Famous 1846 Ether Daguerreotype May Show the Wrong Patient

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Famous 1846 Ether Daguerreotype May Show the Wrong Patient
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A whole-plate daguerreotype held by the Getty Museum, captioned for over a century as the October 16, 1846 first public ether demonstration in Boston, has been identified as depicting a different patient from a different procedure.

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