
Dr. Morton Administers Anesthesia

by William Thomas Green Morton
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Dr. Morton Administers Anesthesia
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William Thomas Green Morton
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William Thomas Green Morton administers anesthesia to a Dental Patient; William Thomas Green Morton (August 9, 1819 – July 15, 1868) was an American dentist who first publicly demonstrated the use of inhaled ether as a surgical anesthetic in 1846. The promotion of his questionable claim to have been the discoverer of anesthesia became an obsession for the rest of his life.
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December 20th, 2021
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