![detail of the painting "Conquerors of Pain" showing William T.G. Morton etherizing a patient at Massachusetts General Hospital on October 16, 1846](https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/conquerors-of-pain.jpg)
Kings of Pain
who gets the credit for an important discovery?
In October 1846, the world discovered surgical anesthesia. Four men would spend the next two decades fighting over which one of them deserved the credit.
Categories: History, Series 12, The Marvels of Science
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