Robert Liston

Standard Name: Liston, Robert

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Dedications	Felicia Hemans	The volume was dedicated to her friend Sir Robert Liston . Hughes, Harriet Browne Owen, and Felicia Hemans. “Memoir of Mrs. Hemans”. The Works of Mrs. Hemans, W. Blackwood, 1839, pp. 1-315. 206

Timeline

1841

American Charles Thomas Jackson discovered the anaesthetic properties of ether.

Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.

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Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996.

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21 December 1846

Robert Liston , a Scottish surgeon working in England, performed a leg amputaton which was the first major operation in Britain under anaesthetic (which he called [t]his Yankee dodge).

Pennington, Hugh. “Can you close your eyes without falling over?”. London Review of Books, 11 Sept. 2003, pp. 30-1.

“Time Machines Exhibition”. Museum of the History of Science,, Oxford, 2012.

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