The Ether Monument (1867) in the Public Garden, is not an artistic masterpiece, but none commemorates a greater humanitarian achievement than 'the discovery that the inhaling of ether causes insensibility to pain, first proved to the world at the Mass. General Hospital, Oct. 1846'

The Ether Monument (1867) in the Public Garden, is not an artistic masterpiece, but none commemorates a greater humanitarian achievement than 'the discovery that the inhaling of ether causes insensibility to pain, first proved to the world at the Mass. General Hospital, Oct. 1846'

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