title: An ether anaesthesia at Stroud in 1847--a report in search of a date.
abstract: About the middle of 1847, Doctor Buchanan of the Australian Agricultural Company ligated a popliteal aneurysm under ether anaesthesia at Stroud, N.S.W. This paper summarises the results of a search for matters related to what must have been one of the first anaesthetics given in Australia.
mesh_terms: D000769:Anesthesia, Inhalation / Q000266:history*; D001315:Australia; D004986:Ether / Q000266:history*; D005019:Ethyl Ethers / Q000266:history*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans
chemical_list: D005019:Ethyl Ethers; D004986:Ether