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1852 Sci. Amer. 4 Sept. 402/3 It is likely that no appropriation will be made for the etherists during the present session of Congress.

1863 A. T. Watson in Rep. Comm. Senate U.S.: 37th Congr. Third Sess. I. No. 89 73 I gave the fullest scope in my hospital to ether versus chloroform, and from the sadly ample opportunity for testing both, I am an etherist.

1884 H. Thompson Tumours of Bladder 25 If the etherist permits the patient any power of resisting with the abdominal muscles, the effort is hopeless.

1900 Montreal Med. Jrnl. 29 137 At least among the professional anæsthetists, the indications for the use of both chloroform and ether are becoming better understood, and men are less inclined to style themselves either ‘etherists’ or ‘chloroformists’.

1946 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 16 Feb. 252/2 Let it be hoped that it [sc. anaesthesia] will not become more over-specialized than it is now, and that the advent of the ‘premedicationist’, the ‘pentothalist’, and the ‘open etherist’ will be long delayed.

1994 Austral. & N.Z. Jrnl. Surg. 64 790 Lewellin immigrated from Scotland to become a pioneer Melbourne etherist and surgeon from 1852.

1888 N. Kerr Inebriety vii. 109 At first he took chloral and opium, then he devoted himself to ether, and has been an etherist for some four years.

1890 Huddersfield Daily Chron. 29 Dec. 4/1 I have known an alcoholist get thoroughly drunk twice in 24 hours,..but the educated etherist can, at a pinch, get drunk and sober again six times in the same space of time.

1910 C. A. McBride Mod. Treatm. Alcoholism & Drug Narcotism 303 Etherists are to be found at almost all ages from puberty onwards.

1992 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 17 Oct. 958/1 He described the abuse of the substance by young ‘etherists’.