Abstract
Background: James Young Simpson is very well known as the first to administer anaesthesia (Ether) on January 19th 1847 for relief of pain in childbirth. This followed Mortons administration of Ether in Boston on October 16th 1846. In Boston, Nathan Cooley Keep administered the first anaesthetic in midwifery in Boston on April 7th 1847 to Fanny Appleton Longfellow, the wife of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Walter Channing of Boston used ether for an instrumental delivery on May 5th 1847. Simpson discovered the usefulness of chloroform in November 1847 and rapidly published his findings the same month. Chloroform was then used more widely than ether from this date. We sought to clarify which physicians were involved in the early adoption of anaesthesia to obstetric practice in Ireland.
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