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My painfully funny ether story ...due to Philadelphia pediatric medical wisdom of the time, our pediatrician recommended that my brother and I be circumcised though we were already 6 & 8 yo at the time and as far as we knew, we had not yet spread diseases all over the area. Back in the late 1950's, though I like some of the cars of the era, they were still using ether for anesthesia and even something as simple as circumcision was a three day in the hospital ordeal between admittance and prep, the operation, plus a day of recovery. The worst part of the ether is the enduring nasty nauseous aftertaste. Put my vote in for the good old mohel. After we got home, we both had a large wad of gauze stuck to our pulsating pistons of pleasure for a couple days, I remember taking a bath with that soaked weight hanging.
We used ether in high school biology to stun those little fruit flies into cooperating with evolutionary theories and now I use it to start my lawnmower.
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