WTG Morton

1. 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

2. William Thomas Greene Morton

3. 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

4. Collegiate education • Baltimore College of Dental Surgery in 1840 • 1843 Morton married Elizabeth Whitman of Farmington – condition ? • Quit dental join medicine

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. The famous days • On September 30, 1846, Morton performed a painless tooth extraction after administering ether to a patient

8. 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

9. 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",

10. Replica of the ether inhaler • AIR patient ether

11. The historic first anaesthesia

12. Ether controversy • Who used it first ??

13. 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

14. 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.

15. 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

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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.

19. Chancellorsville

20. 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

21. 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

22. Morton’ s story • 1944 Paramount Pictures film The Great Moment.

23. Ether monument at Boston’ s public garden

24. Ether dome

25. Thank you all