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William Thomas Green Morton [1819-1868] American
Rank: 104
Inventor, Dentist


William Thomas Green Morton was an American dentist who first publicly demonstrated the use of inhaled ether as a surgical anesthetic in 1846.


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