William Thomas Green Morton

Dentist

1819-08-09 – 1868-07-15

William Thomas Green Morton was an American dentist known for the first successful public demonstration of ether anesthesia in surgery in 1846. His demonstration at Massachusetts General Hospital helped establish surgical anesthesia in medical practice.

Quotes by William Thomas Green Morton

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.
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