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William T. G. Morton

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Gender Male
Death155 years ago
Date of birth August 9,1819
Zodiac sign Leo
Born Charlton
Massachusetts
United States
Date of died July 15,1868
DiedNew York
New York
United States
SpouseElizabeth Whiteman
Place of burialMount Auburn Cemetery, Massachusetts, United States
Job Dentist
Education Harvard University
University of Maryland School of Dentistry
Harvard Medical School
Washington University in St. Louis
BooksThe 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
InfluencCharles T. Jackson
Horace Wells
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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.

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