1870-1875

“Ether Revolution,” especially in London & Boston. By end of 1875, majority of London hospitals used ether or combination of nitrous oxide and ether as anesthetics of choice; chloroform remained dominant in Scotland and on the continent (Stratmann, 151ff.). By 1882, the year of Joseph Clover’s death, “the ‘ether frenzy’ was over. Deaths had occurred both under ether and nitrous oxide, and there was a renewal of interest in chloroform” (164).