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.
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."
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.