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.

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.

Lucy B. Hobbs became the first woman to graduate from
a dental school, the Ohio College of Dental Surgery in 
Cincinnati.