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The inhaling of ether was discovered to cause insensibility to pain, a fact first proved to the world at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston in October A.D. 1846. In gratitude for the relief of human suffering by the inhaling of ether, a citizen of Boston, Thomas Lee, erected this monument in A.D. 1867.
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