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William Thomas Green Morton

William Thomas Green Morton was an American dentist and physician 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.

American - Inventor | August 9, 1819 - July 15, 1868

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That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a sense of ethics and decency was one of the bitter ironies of history.

William Thomas Green Morton

William Thomas Green Morton

The state should, I think, be called 'anesthesia.' This signifies insensibility. — © William Thomas Green Morton

The state should, I think, be called 'anesthesia.' This signifies insensibility.

William Thomas Green Morton

William Thomas Green Morton

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