 This
is an illustration of the Bulfinch Building, the first home
of the Massachusetts General Hospital, which opened in 1823.
The operating room of the hospital, now known as the Ether
Dome, is visible in the center of the building's top floor.
In this operating theater general anesthesia for surgery was
demonstrated to the world's medical community for the first
time.
Neurosurgical Grand Rounds are presented in the Etherdome
each Thursday from 8-9 a.m.
The East
and West Neurosurgical Services are named after the wings
of the Bulfinch building. The South Surgical Service also
dates to the time of Harvey Cushing's Internship at Massachusetts
General Hospital.
(Used with
Permission - from an original ink wash and watercolor lithograph
by Robert J. Leanna II.)
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