Massachusetts Gallery

First use of anesthesia in surgery, 1846

First public demonstration of surgical anesthesia, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, 1846.
Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustratioin

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British army marching in formation up Breed's Hill in the Battle of Bunker Hill, American Revolution, 1775
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century Howard Pyle illustration

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Deacon Giless Distillery temperance cartoon, 1830s

"Bringing back the rum," temperance cartoon showing liquor barrels labeled with forms of death, Salem, Massachusetts.
Hand-colored woodcut from an 1830s temperance pamphlet

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