born in charlton, massachusetts, william t. g. morton was the son of james morton, a farmer, and...
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WTG Morton Dr. S. Parthasarathy
MD., DA., DNB, MD (Acu), Dip. Diab. DCA, Dip. Software statistics
PhD (physio) Mahatma Gandhi medical college and
research institute , puducherry – India
William Thomas Greene Morton
The start was like this
Born in Charlton, Massachusetts, William T. G. Morton was the son of James Morton, a farmer, and Rebecca (Needham) Morton
Excelled in school
clerk, printer, and salesman
Collegiate education
Baltimore College of Dental Surgery in 1840
1843 Morton married Elizabeth Whitman of Farmington – condition ?
Quit dental join medicine
Dental to medicine to ether
In the autumn of 1844, Morton entered Harvard Medical School
attended the chemistry lectures of Dr. Charles T. Jackson, who introduced Morton to the
anesthetic properties of ether. Morton then also left Harvard.
Dental practice
A lot of patients with root cleaning in dental treatment were feeling pain
Morton first tested ether on animals and then upon himself to measure the possible after effects.
When he was convinced of its safety, he decided to put it to use on a patient.
The famous days
On September 30, 1846, Morton performed a painless tooth extraction after administering ether to a patient
Ether day
Boston surgeon Henry Jacob Bigelow arranged for a now-famous demonstration of ether
October 16, 1846 at the operating theater of the
Massachusetts General Hospital
Science controlled pain
Dr. John Collins Warren painlessly removed a tumour from the neck of a Mr. Edward Gilbert Abbot
Morton tried to hide the identity of the substance Abbott had inhaled, by referring to it as "Letheon",
Replica of the ether inhaler
AIR
ether
patient
The historic first anaesthesia
Ether controversy
Who used it first ??
Who used ether first ??
It was actually employed in 1842 by Dr.
Crawford W. Long, at the University of
Pennsylvania, in some minor cases of
surgery.
but he would seem to have lost
confidence in his method and afterwards
abandoned it
Finance and problems
In December 1846, Morton applied to
Congress for "national recompense" of
$100,000,
was complicated by the claims of Jackson
and Wells as discoverers of ether, and so
Morton's application proved fruitless.
Degree for the first anaesthetist
In 1852 he received an honorary degree from the Washington University of Medicine
Demonstration of control of science over pain
The infamous Morton
Morton's notoriety only increased when he served as the star defence witness in
that of John White Webster accused of the murder of Dr. George
Parkman. Morton's rival
Finance from France
the French Academy of Medicine awarded
Jackson and Morton a joint prize of 5,000
francs, Morton turned it down on the grounds
that it rightfully belonged to him alone
Suit for 100000 $
spent on court expenses
Pauper
To do good things
Morton performed public service yet again -
1862
when he joined the Army of the Potomac as a
volunteer surgeon,
applied ether to more than two thousand
wounded soldiers during the battles of
Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and the
Wilderness.
Chancellorsville
The End
Morton was in New York City in July
1868 when he went to Central Park to
seek relief from a heat wave, where he
collapsed and died soon after
In 1871, a committee published
The Historical Memoranda Relative to the Discovery of Etherization
to establish Morton as the inventor and revealer of anaesthetic inhalation
Morton’ s story
1944 Paramount Pictures film The Great Moment.
Ether monument at Boston’ s public garden
Ether dome
Thank you all