1893

One of first patients Cushing anesthetizes (etherizes) at MGH dies; Cushing so affected that he and classmate Amory Codman devise improvement in administration of ether – ether charts (Fulton, 69, 93-97). By May 1893, Cushing suicidally depressed (Fulton, 75). NYC founds first publicly supported laboratory devoted to diphtheria diagnosis (Reiser, 142), with diphtheria antitoxin produced in NYC lab under Wm. Park in 1894 (Liebenau, 52).