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. 2009 Sep;78(3):146-56.

Clouds of unknowing: presidential address to the Ulster Medical Society, Thursday 9th October 2008

Howard Fee  1
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Clouds of unknowing: presidential address to the Ulster Medical Society, Thursday 9th October 2008

Howard Fee. Ulster Med J. 2009 Sep.
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Coat of Arms of the College of Anaesthetists
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Bust (left) and coat of arms (right) of James MacDonnell
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Bust (left) and coat of arms (right) of James MacDonnell
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Extracts from the Medical Times letter
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Extracts from the Medical Times letter
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Henry Hickman
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Mass. General Ether Dome
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Early chronology of Ether and chloroform
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James Young Simpson
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The Lavoisiers
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Humphry Davy
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A Colton dental office
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The Minnitt (left) and the Lucy Baldwin (right) apparatus
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The Minnitt (left) and the Lucy Baldwin (right) apparatus
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John Snow
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Clover – hand on pulse
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Sir Frederick Hewitt
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King Edward VII
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The Royal Chelsea Hospital chapel
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Intravenous ‘anaesthetics’
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Reproduction (left) of the anaesthetic record of the first administration of Thiopentone, 8th March 1934 by Ralph Waters (right)
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Reproduction (left) of the anaesthetic record of the first administration of Thiopentone, 8th March 1934 by Ralph Waters (right)
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Harold Griffith
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The BIS monitor
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GABA mutation. Reproduced by permission from Macmillan Publishers Ltd NRN (from reference 13). Copyright 2009.
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Thalamic projections. Reproduced by permission from Macmillan Publishers Ltd NRN (from reference 13). Copyright 2009.
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Clouds of Unknowing
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