first anaesthetic given in England blue plaque

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# 24 Gower Street, Bloomsbury Standing before this elegant Georgian townhouse in the heart of Bloomsbury, you're at the precise spot where medical history pivoted on a single December evening in 1846. It was here, in a room within this very building, that Robert Liston, one of London's most celebra...

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24 Gower Street

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The first anaesthetic given in England was administered in a house on this site 19 December 1846