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October 16 is “Ether Day” — celebrating the first time anesthesia was successfully used for surgery in 1846. The “Ether Dome” where the surgery took place is now a historic landmark in Boston. That early anesthetic that is usually inhaled was born in a very specific place, a place known as the Ether Dome at Mass General Hospital in Boston. -- Courtesy NPR
Experiments in frustration...
Actually, I really like how this turned out.
The past week has been HECTIC. I'm really missing taking photos right now so I fooled around a little earlier. Hopefully soon I can develop the rolls I took over break... finally...
5th Platonic Solid - The Ether - Geometric Representation of the higher dimensions and crystalline consciousness grid our earth is surrounded by.
See Wiki for more details:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_solid
The Platonic solids have been known since antiquity. Ornamented models of them can be found among the carved stone balls created by the late neolithic people of Scotland at least 1000 years before Plato (Atiyah and Sutcliffe 2003). Dice go back to the dawn of civilization with shapes that augured formal charting of Platonic solids.
The ancient Greeks studied the Platonic solids extensively. Some sources (such as Proclus) credit Pythagoras with their discovery. Other evidence suggests he may have only been familiar with the tetrahedron, cube, and dodecahedron, and that the discovery of the octahedron and icosahedron belong to Theaetetus, a contemporary of Plato. In any case, Theaetetus gave a mathematical description of all five and may have been responsible for the first known proof that there are no other convex regular polyhedra.
The Platonic solids feature prominently in the philosophy of Plato for whom they are named. Plato wrote about them in the dialogue Timaeus c.360 B.C. in which he associated each of the four classical elements (earth, air, water, and fire) with a regular solid. Earth was associated with the cube, air with the octahedron, water with the icosahedron, and fire with the tetrahedron. There was intuitive justification for these associations: the heat of fire feels sharp and stabbing (like little tetrahedra). Air is made of the octahedron; its minuscule components are so smooth that one can barely feel it. Water, the icosahedron, flows out of one's hand when picked up, as if it is made of tiny little balls. By contrast, a highly un-spherical solid, the hexahedron (cube) represents earth. These clumsy little solids cause dirt to crumble and break when picked up, in stark difference to the smooth flow of water. Moreover, the solidity of the Earth was believed to be due to the fact that the cube is the only regular solid that tesselates Euclidean space. The fifth Platonic solid, the dodecahedron, Plato obscurely remarks, "...the god used for arranging the constellations on the whole heaven". Aristotle added a fifth element, aithêr (aether in Latin, "ether" in English) and postulated that the heavens were made of this element, but he had no interest in matching it with Plato's fifth solid
Nosotros, en cambio, vivimos las frías
mansiones del éter cuajado de mil claridades,
sin horas ni días,
sin sexos ni edades...
Es nuestra existencia serena, inmutable;
nuestra eterna risa, serana y astral.
El lobo estepario - Herman Hessse
The Grove takes on an etherial glow from the early morning fog. Photo by Robert Jordan/Ole Miss Communications
The base is a tower of cheese, based upon the single block designed by Eilonwy77
www.flickr.com/photos/eilonwy77/8554490765/in/faves-58807... modified as I required a smaller diameter tower.
This is a “Foregger anesthesia apparatus” circa 1925. The design of this machine was to allow better mixture of air and ether, British doctors at this time preferred chloroform rather than ether. Chloroform was mush more difficult to administer safely because of its high potency. Never the less, it was popular for general surgery, and especially popular in obstetrics. Chloroform was often administered in an open method by dropping the substance into a wire mask covered with gauze or flannel. Suck masks were also used with ether. Dropper bottles were used in the administration of both chloroform and ether. Inhalers sought to further improve the mixture of air and vapor to control the amount of ether administered. Despite these early inhalers, “open drop” anesthesia persisted as the common method until the middle of the 20th century. The original machine was originally designed to administer nitrous oxide, nitrous oxide was originally used at parties to make every one giggly. During the 18th century their were many party which involved the use of gases to make people feel giggly and to get away from a sense of reality. A group of people make to Dr. Long for some nitrous oxide, but he had some sulfuric ether. He administer the ether using a machine similar to this one to the group of people and noticed that when they were heavily on the ether they could feel no pain.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawford_Long
Dudley Wilmot Buxton, Crawford Williamson Long (1815-1879) : the pioneer of anaesthesia and the first to suggest and employ ether inhalation during surgical operations (London : J. Bale, Sons & Daniellson, 1912) 27
This morning's fog combined with the stillness of the water made the fishing boats look like they were floating in the ether.
hors réalité, presque irréel, participant autant de la réalité de la terre et du ciel, paysage de l'âme...paysage intérieur