Ether Dome

The Ether Dome was the operating room of the Bulfinch Building at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. It was an early place that ether was demonstrated to the public on 16 October 1846 by William Thomas Green Morton, a Boston dentist, as an anesthetic for surgical procedures, but the first public demonstration of ether as a surgical anesthetic was performed by Dr. Crawford Long, of Danielsville, Georgia.

The Ether Dome is now used for medical conferences and presentations, and is open to the public when not in use. It contains a remarkable contemporary painting of that historic event by Warren and Lucia Prosperi, as well as mummies and other odd artifacts and relics. It is listed as a National Historic Landmark.