William Thomas Green Morton Quotes

United States, Dentist
August 9, 1819 – July, 15, 1868.

William Thomas Green Morton was an American dentist who first publicly demonstrated the use of inhaled ether as a surgical anaesthetic in 1846. The promotion of his questionable claim to have been the discoverer of anaesthesia became an obsession for the rest of his life.

Also known as Inventor

The state should, I think, be called 'anesthesia.' This signifies insensibility.

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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