Happy Ether Day!

Happy Ether Day!

If it was Ether Day on this day in 1908, then it must be Ether Day today! I stumbled across one reference, but had a hard time finding any other, though I did find a few. On October 16, 1908, the Palestine Daily Herald, of Palestine, Texas, reported on it, as did Washington Times on October 16, 1913.

What is this happy holiday and how do we celebrate it? It’s the anniversary of the first successful use of anesthesia, first done in 1846. Wikipedia points out the the chemistry challenged that the specific compound in question is dimethyl ether (CH₃OCH₃), and that ethers are a whole class of chemical compounds.[1]

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