Photograph of a dining room. Manuscript note on verso: "Dining room 32 Queen St. Edin. where chloroform was first tried as an anaesthetic, 4th Nov. 1847."
Photograph of surgical procedure. Patient is being anesthetized. Can of ether is visible in the foreground and a uniformed nurse faces the camera in the background. An eyechart is hanging on the wall. From the archive of Charles Reed.
Portait of adult woman who was the first baby born of a mother to whom anesthesia had been administered. Photograph given to Howard Kelly by Eve Simpson, daugther of Sir James Simpson.