Excerpt from History of Anesthesia:
"One of the earliest private nurse anesthetists in the South and the first in Memphis, Tenn., was Ethel Baxter (1877 - ), who was taught to give ether during her nurse's training from 1899 to 1901 at Dr. Crofford's Sanitorium in Memphis. Subsequently taking charge of a hospital in Yazoo City, Miss., for Eugene J. Johnston (1875 - 1938), she learned from him how to give chloroform as well. Johnson's practice took him throughout the impoverished sections of rural Mississippi, and with him went Ethel Baxter, traveling by any available means of conveyance, even ox cart, sterilizing instruments in the kitchen oven, scrubbing floors and dousing the furniture in the operating room with antiseptic solution, and on one occasion constructing an operating table from two planks pulled off a barn and laid across two casks, the operation being performed on the porch since the flies swarmed less viciously there than in the house. When Johnson formed a partnership with J. A. Crisler, Sr., (1868 - 1840) in Memphis, Ethel Baxter returned with him to carry on her work as private anesthetist and surgical assistant."
Obituary
Miss Ethel Teresa Baxter, 94, of 242 North Hawthorne, a retired anesthetist for Baptist Hospital, died at 8:45 a.m. yesterday in Resthaven Nursing Home. She was a member of Lindsay Memorial Presbyterian Church.
Services will be at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow at Memphis Funeral Home on Union with burial in Forest Hill.
Miss Baxter studied in New York, Chicago and Cleveland to become an anesthetist. She retired as a registered nurse and anesthetist in 1942.
She leaves two nieces, Mrs. Winston Dickey of Memphis and Mrs. Russell J. Baker of Northbrook. Ill., and five nephews, Dr. Alva G. Baxter, Eugene J. Baxter and Joseph Baxter, all of Memphis, Jack A. Baxter of Ft. Lauderdale Fla., and Hunter J. Hyde of Richmond, Va.
"One of the earliest private nurse anesthetists in the South and the first in Memphis, Tenn., was Ethel Baxter (1877 - ), who was taught to give ether during her nurse's training from 1899 to 1901 at Dr. Crofford's Sanitorium in Memphis. Subsequently taking charge of a hospital in Yazoo City, Miss., for Eugene J. Johnston (1875 - 1938), she learned from him how to give chloroform as well. Johnson's practice took him throughout the impoverished sections of rural Mississippi, and with him went Ethel Baxter, traveling by any available means of conveyance, even ox cart, sterilizing instruments in the kitchen oven, scrubbing floors and dousing the furniture in the operating room with antiseptic solution, and on one occasion constructing an operating table from two planks pulled off a barn and laid across two casks, the operation being performed on the porch since the flies swarmed less viciously there than in the house. When Johnson formed a partnership with J. A. Crisler, Sr., (1868 - 1840) in Memphis, Ethel Baxter returned with him to carry on her work as private anesthetist and surgical assistant."
Obituary
Miss Ethel Teresa Baxter, 94, of 242 North Hawthorne, a retired anesthetist for Baptist Hospital, died at 8:45 a.m. yesterday in Resthaven Nursing Home. She was a member of Lindsay Memorial Presbyterian Church.
Services will be at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow at Memphis Funeral Home on Union with burial in Forest Hill.
Miss Baxter studied in New York, Chicago and Cleveland to become an anesthetist. She retired as a registered nurse and anesthetist in 1942.
She leaves two nieces, Mrs. Winston Dickey of Memphis and Mrs. Russell J. Baker of Northbrook. Ill., and five nephews, Dr. Alva G. Baxter, Eugene J. Baxter and Joseph Baxter, all of Memphis, Jack A. Baxter of Ft. Lauderdale Fla., and Hunter J. Hyde of Richmond, Va.
Excerpt from History of Anesthesia:
"One of the earliest private nurse anesthetists in the South and the first in Memphis, Tenn., was Ethel Baxter (1877 - ), who was taught to give ether during her nurse's training from 1899 to 1901 at Dr. Crofford's Sanitorium in Memphis. Subsequently taking charge of a hospital in Yazoo City, Miss., for Eugene J. Johnston (1875 - 1938), she learned from him how to give chloroform as well. Johnson's practice took him throughout the impoverished sections of rural Mississippi, and with him went Ethel Baxter, traveling by any available means of conveyance, even ox cart, sterilizing instruments in the kitchen oven, scrubbing floors and dousing the furniture in the operating room with antiseptic solution, and on one occasion constructing an operating table from two planks pulled off a barn and laid across two casks, the operation being performed on the porch since the flies swarmed less viciously there than in the house. When Johnson formed a partnership with J. A. Crisler, Sr., (1868 - 1840) in Memphis, Ethel Baxter returned with him to carry on her work as private anesthetist and surgical assistant."
Obituary
Miss Ethel Teresa Baxter, 94, of 242 North Hawthorne, a retired anesthetist for Baptist Hospital, died at 8:45 a.m. yesterday in Resthaven Nursing Home. She was a member of Lindsay Memorial Presbyterian Church.
Services will be at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow at Memphis Funeral Home on Union with burial in Forest Hill.
Miss Baxter studied in New York, Chicago and Cleveland to become an anesthetist. She retired as a registered nurse and anesthetist in 1942.
She leaves two nieces, Mrs. Winston Dickey of Memphis and Mrs. Russell J. Baker of Northbrook. Ill., and five nephews, Dr. Alva G. Baxter, Eugene J. Baxter and Joseph Baxter, all of Memphis, Jack A. Baxter of Ft. Lauderdale Fla., and Hunter J. Hyde of Richmond, Va.
"One of the earliest private nurse anesthetists in the South and the first in Memphis, Tenn., was Ethel Baxter (1877 - ), who was taught to give ether during her nurse's training from 1899 to 1901 at Dr. Crofford's Sanitorium in Memphis. Subsequently taking charge of a hospital in Yazoo City, Miss., for Eugene J. Johnston (1875 - 1938), she learned from him how to give chloroform as well. Johnson's practice took him throughout the impoverished sections of rural Mississippi, and with him went Ethel Baxter, traveling by any available means of conveyance, even ox cart, sterilizing instruments in the kitchen oven, scrubbing floors and dousing the furniture in the operating room with antiseptic solution, and on one occasion constructing an operating table from two planks pulled off a barn and laid across two casks, the operation being performed on the porch since the flies swarmed less viciously there than in the house. When Johnson formed a partnership with J. A. Crisler, Sr., (1868 - 1840) in Memphis, Ethel Baxter returned with him to carry on her work as private anesthetist and surgical assistant."
Obituary
Miss Ethel Teresa Baxter, 94, of 242 North Hawthorne, a retired anesthetist for Baptist Hospital, died at 8:45 a.m. yesterday in Resthaven Nursing Home. She was a member of Lindsay Memorial Presbyterian Church.
Services will be at 3:30 p.m. tomorrow at Memphis Funeral Home on Union with burial in Forest Hill.
Miss Baxter studied in New York, Chicago and Cleveland to become an anesthetist. She retired as a registered nurse and anesthetist in 1942.
She leaves two nieces, Mrs. Winston Dickey of Memphis and Mrs. Russell J. Baker of Northbrook. Ill., and five nephews, Dr. Alva G. Baxter, Eugene J. Baxter and Joseph Baxter, all of Memphis, Jack A. Baxter of Ft. Lauderdale Fla., and Hunter J. Hyde of Richmond, Va.
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