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probably 10 years less than that at least. I was in the Children's
ward of St. Francis hosp. in SF in '45, and was surrounded by kids
who were retching up their guts after getting tonsillectomies using
ether (it was clearly ether--we could smell it). I was 10 at the
time, and even then I thought it was terminal stupid to use a drug
that induced vomiting on people whose throats were being operated on.
Several of the kids hemorrhaged--big surprise. I'm sure that it
wasn't much after that that ether went sompletely out of style.
Hugh