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Carla Villalba

18 Posts

USA

The Great Chicago Fire as a turning point in American disaster history

Carla Villalba

1. The Great Chicago Fire (1871)The Great Chicago Fire remains one of the most infamous urban disasters in United States history. Beginning on October 8, 1871, the blaze burned for…

Science and Technology

How ether anesthesia changed surgery from desperate to deliberate

Carla Villalba

1. The First Successful Use of Ether Anesthesia (1846)Before the mid-nineteenth century, surgery functioned as a brutal, last-resort intervention executed at lightning speed to minimize agony. On October 16, 1846,…