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., Henry J. Bigelow, M.D. (etherizer), 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
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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Historic daguerreotype of an ether surgery conducted at Mass. General Hospital in 1847.