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Manufacturer: Merc Fries Bros.
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Antique Ether with original Fries Brothers Kelene box. Great labels with Merck and Company distributors. Perfect bottle, all original though contents long gone.
Ether or Sweet Vitriol was discovered by Raymundus Lullius a Spanish chemist According to anesthesia-nursing. com a fascinating website for Nurses in 1540 Ether was first manmade by Valarius Cordus a Scientist from Germany and a Swiss Physician Alchemist named Paracelus discovered it's hypnotic effects. W.G. Frobenius a German Scientist changed he name to Ether in 1730.
Though used for every ailment from Scurvy to Lung disorders Ethers first use s an anesthesia was by Dr. Crawford Williamson Long a Maryland Surgeon in 1842. Sadly he did not publish his findings until 1848 which laid the basis for hotly debated patent claims to follow by Dr W.T.G. Morton. His public surgical demonstration and the failure of Nitrous Oxide propelled ether in to international use. The Doctor called it Letheon and his patent application never brought him the financial reward he hoped for.
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