Dry ether is a type of ether. The common properties of dry ether are that it evaporates at atmospheric pressure. It is also an odorless, colorless gas with no taste or smell. Dry ether was once used as an anesthetic because it evaporates quickly.
Dry Ether was used as an surgical anesthesia, but has since been replaced by other agents such as halothane and enflurane due to the greater safety of those agents and their tendency to provide fewer side effects than dry ether.
