Dr william morton biography of williams
Dr william morton biography of williams
Dr william morton 1846...
William T. G. Morton
American dentist and physician (1819–1868)
William Thomas Green Morton (August 9, 1819 – July 15, 1868) 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.[1]
Early life
Born in Charlton, Massachusetts, William T.
G. Morton was the son of James Morton, a miner, and Rebecca (Needham) Morton. William found work as a clerk, printer, and salesman in Boston before entering Baltimore College of Dental Surgery in 1840. In 1841, he gained notoriety for developing a new process to solder false teeth onto gold plates.[2] In 1842, he left college after graduating[3] to study in Hartford, Connecticut with dentist Horace Wells and Dr.
Nathan Cooley Keep.[4] In 1843, Morton married Elizabeth Whitman of Farmington, Connecticut