Patient: unknown woman. According to rowley (2022), the image likely represents a surgery for epulis in a 19-yr-old woman, prosecuted on july 3, 1847, the same day as francis manuel's surgery represented by ether dome daguerreotypes no. 3-5. Rowley scholarship published online: [1]
possible identifications of others, left to right: unknown, j. Mason warren, m. D, solomon davis townsend, m. D. , etherizer charles frederick heywood, m. D. , william t. G. Morton or henry j. Bigelow, m. D. , samuel parkman, m. D. , john collins warren, m. D. , unknown person possibly an attendant, unknown, unknown. Attributions from haridas, lowry & lowry, et al. Date: Taken on 3 July 1847. Medium: daguerreotype. Collection: Fogg Museum.
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