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William Morton, First Use of Surgical Anesthesia,1846
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Titre: William Morton, First Use of Surgical Anesthesia,1846
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First use of surgical anesthesia. William Thomas Green Morton (August 9, 1819 - July 15, 1868) was an American dentist. On September 30, 1846, Morton performed a painless tooth extraction after administering ether to a patient. Upon reading a newspaper account of this event, Boston surgeon Henry Jacob Bigelow arranged for a public demonstration of ether on October 16, 1846 at the operating theater of the Massachusetts General Hospital. At this demonstration Dr. John Collins Warren painlessly removed a tumor from the neck of Edward Gilbert Abbott. News of this use of ether spread rapidly around the world. The Massachusetts General Hospital theater came to be known as the Ether Dome and has been preserved as a monument to this historic event. The promotion of his questionable claim to have been the discoverer of anesthesia became an obsession for the rest of his life. Morton was in NYC in July 1868. He was riding in a carriage with his wife when he suddenly demanded the carriage stop, and he ran into the lake in Central Park to cool off. This peculiar behavior was because he had suffered a major stroke which proved fatal soon after. He died at the age of 48. Oil painting by Ernest Board, 1912.
First use of surgical anesthesia. William Thomas Green Morton (August 9, 1819 - July 15, 1868) was an American dentist. On September 30, 1846, Morton performed a painless tooth extraction after administering ether to a patient. Upon reading a newspaper account of this event, Boston surgeon Henry Jacob Bigelow arranged for a public demonstration of ether on October 16, 1846 at the operating theater of the Massachusetts General Hospital. At this demonstration Dr. John Collins Warren painlessly removed a tumor from the neck of Edward Gilbert Abbott. News of this use of ether spread rapidly around the world. The Massachusetts General Hospital theater came to be known as the Ether Dome and has been preserved as a monument to this historic event. The promotion of his questionable claim to have been the discoverer of anesthesia became an obsession for the rest of his life. Morton was in NYC in July 1868. He was riding in a carriage with his wife when he suddenly demanded the carriage stop, and he ran into the lake in Central Park to cool off. This peculiar behavior was because he had suffered a major stroke which proved fatal soon after. He died at the age of 48. Oil painting by Ernest Board, 1912.
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