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    William Thomas Green Morton (1819-1868) was an American dentist who experimented with anesthesia and is considered the first person to demonstrate the use of ether as an inhaled anesthetic for surgery. He extracted an infected tooth from a patient painlessly using ether inhalation on September 1, 1846 in front of witnesses. However, Morton was jealous of his discovery and fought over financial rewards, which led to poverty in his later years.

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    William Thomas Green Morton

    The American dentist William Thomas Green Morton (1819-1868) was an


    early experimenter with anesthesia.

    William Morton was born on Aug. 9, 1819, in Charlton, Mass. He went to Boston
    at the age of 17 to try a career in business, but after several years he took up
    the study of dentistry at the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery.

    In 1842 Morton began his practice in Farmington, Conn., where he met Horace
    Wells, a dentist who was interested in anesthesia and who was to experiment
    later with nitrous oxide gas. They set up a practice together in Boston, but it was
    dissolved after a few months. Morton then entered Harvard in 1844 to study for
    a medical degree but left because of financial pressures and his marriage that
    year to Elizabeth Whitman.

    Morton resumed his dental practice and began to concentrate on manufacturing


    and fitting artificial teeth, work which led him to consider using anesthesia.
    Before a patient could be fitted with artificial teeth, the roots of his old teeth had
    to be extracted—a tedious and painful operation. Morton had observed
    experiments with ether in his chemistry classes at Harvard, and his professor
    Charles T. Jackson encouraged him to try it on his patients. Morton first tested
    ether on animals and then upon himself to measure the possible aftereffects.
    When he was convinced of its safety, he decided to put it to use on a patient.

    On Sept. 1, 1846, in a demonstration attended by witnesses, he put a patient to


    sleep by ether inhalation and painlessly extracted an infected tooth. The
    success of this operation was reported in the newspapers and attracted wide
    attention, particularly among Boston doctors, who were interested in the use of
    ether for surgery.

    Morton was jealous of his discovery, however, and refused to divulge the
    formula for his sleep inducer, which he called "letheon." He was issued a patent
    for letheon in 1846 and insisted on personally issuing licenses for the use of his
    discovery. When 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. In 1849 he petitioned Congress for a reward for
    the discovery of anesthesia, and two bills advocating the payment of $100,000
    to Morton were introduced at separate sessions. But the lengthy debates which
    took place between the warring factions left the issue hopelessly deadlocked.

    Morton's legal expenses and the neglect of his practice in the pursuit of financial
    gain for his discovery reduced him to poverty in his later years. On July 15,
    1868, he died in New York City.

    Penemu, Tokoh. (2014). Biografi William Thomas Green Morton. [Online].


    Tersedia http://tokohpenemu.blogspot.co.id/2014/12/biografi-william-t-g-morton-
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