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