William T G Morton
American
William T G Morton was a notable American dentist who first publicly demonstrated the use of ether as a surgical anaesthetic. - AsNotedIn
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- Son: William James Morton
William T G Morton was a notable American dentist who first publicly demonstrated the use of ether as a surgical anaesthetic. - AsNotedIn
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| 1819/08/09 | William Morton is born in Charlton, MA | Born | Charlton | Massachusetts | |||
| 1827/00/00 | After their family home burns down, the Morton family buys the Waters house from the estate of Israel Waters, a prosperous tanner | Home | Northside Village Historic District | Charlton | |||
| 1843/00/00 | Morton opens a dentist office at 19 Tremont St, Boston | Work | |||||
| 1844/03/00 | Morton enrolls at Harvard Medical School, taught by Charles Jackson, and learns that the common organic solvent sulfuric ether can render a person unconscious (Mason St, Boston). | Education | Modern Anesthesia | ||||
| 1844/04/00 | Charles Jackson advises Morton to apply chloric ether to the sensitive gums of a patient (Miss Parrot of Gloucester, MA) who wished to have a cavity filled | Physician | Modern Anesthesia | ||||
| 1845/01/00 | Horace Wells demonstrates the anodyne (painkilling) properties of nitrous oxide gas, the patient cries out in pain and the audience of students jeer | Witness | Ether Dome, Massachusetts General Hospital | Boston | Modern Anesthesia | ||
| 1846/06/00 | William Morton buys bottles of ether from a local chemist and begins experimenting on fish, dogs and other animals | Education | Modern Anesthesia | ||||
| 1846/09/30 | William T G Morton uses ether for pain relief while extracting a tooth | Physician | Modern Anesthesia | ||||
| 1846/10/15 | William Morton invents an instrument that can deliver ether by inhalation during an operation. | Inventor | Modern Anesthesia | ||||
| 1846/10/16 | John Collins Warren removes a portion of a tumor from Edward Abbott's neck, the patient was anesthetized with ether | Anesthesiologist | Ether Dome, Massachusetts General Hospital | Boston | Modern Anesthesia | ||
| 1868/07/15 | William T G Morton dies in New York, New York. He is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, MA. | Died | Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge | Cambridge, MA |
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