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A. L. Peirson letter to W. T. G. Morton, 1847
Copy of a letter addressed to Morton, describing Peirson's successful surgical amputations employing ether anesthesia.
Subscription list for the Morton Testimonial Association
Subscription list to raise funds for support of W. T. G. Morton and his family.
Photograph of W. T. G. Morton.
Photograph of W. T. G. Morton.
Photographs from "The Advent of Anesthesia" Film
In 1933, the Mallinckrodt Chemical Company produced a short silent file, “The Advent of Anesthesia”, depicting the experiments of W. T. G. Morton with ether anesthesia and recreating the first public demonstration of the operation on Gilbert Abbott…
Report of the Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts General Hospital, Presented to the Corporation, at their Annual Meeting, January 26, 1848.
Conclusions of a committee inquiring into the claims of W. T. G. Morton and Charles T. Jackson over the credit for the discovery of ether anesthesia.
Photograph of W. T. G. Morton.
Photograph of W. T. G. Morton.
Morton-type ether inhaler with sponge and presentation inscription from T. G. Morton to J. Mason Warren.
Photograph of Morton-type ether inhaler with sponge and presentation inscription from T. G. Morton to J. Mason Warren.
"Wm. T. G. Morton, M.D. surgeon dentist, Boston, administering ether preparatory to performing the operation by which he first discovered and demonstrated the marvellous anaesthetic powers of ether in surgery"
Engraving "Wm. T. G. Morton, M.D. surgeon dentist, Boston, administering ether preparatory to performing the operation by which he first discovered and demonstrated the marvellous anaesthetic powers of ether in surgery."