William thomas green morton biography books

Tarnished Idol:
William Thomas Green Morton and the Introduction of Surgical Anesthesia. A Chronicle of the Ether Controversy. Richard J.

Wolfe
Out of Print

The first comprehensive biography of the life of W. T. G. Morton and his role in the introduction of surgical anesthesia and the controversy that ensued. Much of the information that is included has never before been published.

688 pages.

60 illustrations. Cloth, dust jacket, acid-free paper. 7" × 10".

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ISBN 0–930405-81–1. NP37805. July 2001.

 

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Tarnished Idol is the first serious, scholarly biography of William T. G. Morton, the self-trained Boston dentist who is credited with demonstrating to the medical profession in 1846 the efficacy of sulfuric ether in allaying the pain of surgery.

It is also the first detailed analysis of the “ether controversy,” which grew out of Morton’s asso