William T. G. Morton
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 157 years ago |
| Date of birth | August 9,1819 |
| Zodiac sign | Leo |
| Born | Charlton |
| Massachusetts | |
| United States | |
| Date of died | July 15,1868 |
| Died | New York |
| New York | |
| United States | |
| Spouse | Elizabeth Whiteman |
| Place of burial | Mount Auburn Cemetery, Massachusetts, United States |
| Job | Dentist |
| Education | Harvard University |
| University of Maryland School of Dentistry | |
| Harvard Medical School | |
| Washington University in St. Louis | |
| Books | The Use of Ether as an Anesthetic at the Battle of the Wilderness in the Civil War (Expanded, Annotated) |
| Circular. Morton's Letheon | |
| Children | William J. Morton |
| Influenc | Charles T. Jackson |
| Horace Wells | |
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| ID | 509431 |
William T. G. Morton Life story
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.