title: Punch, on anaesthesia.
abstract: References in Punch to ether and chloroform during the first two years after the first successful public demonstration of anaesthesia are quoted and considered.
mesh_terms: D000758:Anesthesia / Q000266:history*; D002725:Chloroform / Q000266:history; D004986:Ether / Q000266:history; D006666:History of Medicine; D008513:Medicine in Literature; D006113:United Kingdom; D014925:Wit and Humor as Topic
chemical_list: D004986:Ether; D002725:Chloroform