According to Rowley, the image is the first of three views of a surgery registered on Bigelow's tables for "disease of the fibula" –prosecuted July 3, 1847. Warren assumed responsibility of the surgery, a 19-yr-old Portuguese sailor, named Francis Manuel. Rowley scholarship published online [1]
Date
Taken on 3 July 1847
Source
Photographs of Early Ether Anesthesia in Boston: The Daguerreotypes of Albert Southworth and Josiah Hawes
Photographs of Early Ether Anesthesia in Boston: The Daguerreotypes of Albert Southworth and Josiah Hawes Rajesh Parsotam Haridas, M.B.Ch.B., F.A.N.Z.C.A. Anesthesiology 7 2010, Vol.113, 13-26. doi:10.1097/ALN.0b013e3181de6f41
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Captions
One of three daguerreotype views of an historic ether operation prosecuted at Mass. General Hospital on July 3, 1847