2 quotes by William Thomas Green Morton (1819-1868), American (Inventor)

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

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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William Thomas Green Morton

Born: August 9, 1819
Died: July 15, 1868
Nationality: American
Profession: Inventor

Biography

William Thomas Green Morton was an American dentist and physician 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.

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