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(Mac Donnell Family Crest) JOHN MAC DONNELL AND THE FIRST ANAESTHETIC IN IRELAND.   The news that William Morton had successfully demonstrated the use of Ether as an anaesthetic in Boston on 16th October 1846 was not long in getting to Europe. Just over 2 months later Sir Robert Liston carried out an amputation under Ether at University College Hospital  London on Monday the  21st December 1846. The January edition (1847) of the journal, the “British and Foreign Medical Review “(1) carried an account of the Morton anaesthetic at the Massachusetts General

  The 23rd Sylvester O’Halloran Surgical Scientific Symposium will be held in The Graduate Entry Medical School, Faculty of Education & Health Science, University of Limerick on Friday 6th March & Saturday 7th March 2015     Abstracts Submissions - deadline 21st November 2014 Venue: The Graduate Entry Medical School, Faculty of Education & Health Sciences, University of Limerick.   For more information email:  kara.leddin@hse.ie or go to: http://www.ul.ie/4i/content/sylvester-ohalloran-surgical-scientific-symposium