Ethyl bromide and the Gilles mask from the AAARBA Museum
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Ethyl bromide was used as a general anesthetic for short surgical procedures and dental extractions in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It was later abandoned due to the numerous deaths associated with its high toxicity. It was administered using inhalers and masks, such as the Gilles mask, created in 1892 by the German physician and dentist Andreas Ludwig Gilles.
The AAARBA Museum of Anesthesia exhibits a Gilles mask that, according to the research conducted, is probably the only one of its kind in the world.
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