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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Morton , William Thomas Green 1819 -1868 (search)
Morton, William Thomas Green 1819-1868
Dentist; born in Charlton, Mass., Aug. 9, 1819.
After studying dentistry in Baltimore in 1840, he settled in Boston (1842), where he successfully manufactured artificial teeth.
While attending lectures at a medical college, he conceived the idea that sulphuric ether might be used to al Warren, ether was administered to a man in the Massachusetts General Hospital, from whose groin a vascular tumor was removed while the patient was unconscious.
Dr. Morton obtained a patent for his discovery in November, 1846, under the name of Letheon, offering, however, free rights to all charitable institutions; but the governm e from Congress remuneration for his discovery he and his family were left in poverty.
Honorable medical men of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia assigned to Dr. Morton the credit of the great discovery — the most important benefaction ever made by man to the human race —and
Samuel George Morton, M. D. said so by signing an a
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wells , Horace 1815 -1848 (search)