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William T. G. Morton
William Thomas Green Morton was an American dentist who first publicly demonstrated the use of inhaled ether as a surgical anesthetic in 1846. He is credited with gaining the medical world’s acceptance of surgical anesthesia.
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science · American dentist and physician (1819–1868) · physician · dentist · surgeon · also William T. G. Morton, Morton Williams, William Thomas Green Morton, Morton
Born 9 August 1819 · Died 15 July 1868 · Q319689
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2010· 1 entry
The New England Journal of Medicine: William T. G. Morton, the Discoverer and Revealer of Surgical Anesthesia: A Plea for His Place in the Hall of Fame
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1871· 1 entry
A committee of those involved in raising the aforementioned national testimonial published The Historical Memoranda Relative to the Discovery of Etherization to establish Morton as the inventor and revealer of anesthetic
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1868· 1 entry
Died 1868-07-15.
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1852· 1 entry
Received an honorary degree from the Washington University of Medicine in Baltimore, which later became the College of Physicians and Surgeons
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1846· 2 entries
At the operating theatre of the Massachusetts General Hospital, or MGH
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Morton performed a painless tooth extraction after administering ether to Ebenezer Hopkins Frost (1824–1866)
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1845· 1 entry
He had five children with his wife: William James Morton (1845–1920), Marion Alethe Morton (1847–unknown, after 1865), Edward Whitman Morton (1848–unknown, after 1870), Elizabeth Whitman Morton (1850–1922), Bowditch Nathaniel Morton (1857–1909).
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1843· 1 entry
Morton married Elizabeth Whitman of Farmington, Connecticut, the niece of former Congressman Lemuel Whitman
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1842· 1 entry
Left college after graduating to study in Hartford, Connecticut with dentist Horace Wells and Dr
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1841· 1 entry
Gained notoriety for developing a new process to solder false teeth onto gold plates
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1819· 1 entry
Born 1819-08-09.
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