One of my favorite places to relax when visiting this area. Always calm and the monument itself stands for something truly incredible: the invention of modern anesthesia and to ease pain/suffering.

One of the interesting monuments you can see at the Boston Public Garden is the Ether Monument also referred to as the Good Samaritan statue, This monument commemorates the discovered use of ether as an anaesthesia here in Boston in 1846.This 40 foot tall monument is the oldest at the park being created by by John Quincy Adams Ward in 1868. Made of granite and marble, it is topped by a figure of a Moorish-Spanish doctor, holding a sick or dying person who appears to be in great pain. The base of the monument includes four panelled inscriptions, describing the use of esther as a pain relief, topped by relief scenes.The Ether Monument is quite attractive and an interesting link to local medical history in Boston. We quite enjoyed seeing this monument amongst others at the Boston Public Garden and nearby Boston Common.Note: You can find it located at the northwest corner of the garden, near Arlington and Beacon streets.

I love to sit there and relax. One of my favorites in the garden.

Monument with a water features. Good for photos.

Aside from presumably being the statue that Robert Lowell references in his poem on the Public Garden (“inside the basin of a fountain where the heads of four stone lions stare and suck on empty faucets”) this statue, a testament to pain and it’s management, is fascinating from the top to the base.

This is my favorite monument in the park. Has a bit of a baroque emotion on top of the slightly classicist base.

Best ether monument I have ever seen. I would give this 6 out of 5 stars if I could.

A well made Victorian era Monument to a very important medical and scientific achievement that has saved many lives.

Historical place for begining of modetn anesthesia

Nice and peaceful spot

I work nearby. Google seems to think that its important to remind me that this thing is here everyday.

This is a small statue in Boston public gardens. There is not much to see here except for a few plaques on the statue, but I would recommend the gardens (and the Boston common).

We have a monument to the invention of ether. Thats how cool Boston is.

The ducks are very friendly and they have the fattest squirrels Ive ever seen

Nice corner of the park. Peaceful.

Looking at it makes me pleasantly numb.

Nice area to relax.

Great monument

Not so exited

The only moment to a drug I know of