William Thomas Green Morton
William Thomas Green Morton
William Thomas Green Mortonwas an American dentist 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionInventor
Date of Birth9 August 1819
CountryUnited States of America
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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.