William T G Morton

This page lists items in the database related to American pioneer of Anesthetics William T.G. Morton (b. Charlton, Massachusetts, USA, 9 August 1819; d. New York, USA, 15 July 1868):

• Morton’s Ether Inhaler (1846) – facsimile in The Anaesthesia Heritage Centre and Museum, London

• The Ether Dome in Boston with the painting “Ether Day 1846” by Warren and Lucia Prosperi (2001)

• The Ether Monument in Boston

• Morton’s ether inhaler at the Paul S. Russel museum, in Boston

Bibliography

• W.F.Bynum and Helen Bynum, Dictionary of medical biography, Greenwood Press, Westport (CT) 2007, vol. 4, pp. 905-6.

• Rafael A. Ortega, MD, Written in Granite: an illustrated history of the ether monument, Library of Congress, Boston 2006, pp. 34-37