Modern anesthesia is born when dentist and physician William
T.G. Morton demonstrates ether for the first time during a
public surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital.
His earlier efforts included stimulants, intoxication, opium and mesmerism.
William Thomas Green Morton
(August 9, 1819 – July 15, 1868)
Replica of the inhaler used by William T. G. Morton in
the first public demonstration of surgery using ether.
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