On This Day September 30

A Boston dentist called William T.G. Morton (1819-68) is attributed with the initial discovering of general anesthesia for use in the medical field. In the mid 1840s, at the suggestion of his landlord Professor Charles Jackson, Morton started to experiment with using ether to anesthetize a patient before extracting a tooth. After trial runs on himself, his dog and a goldfish, Morton painlessly extracted a tooth from a patient, Eben Frost, after administering ether on September 30, 1846.

Re-enactment of the first public demonstration of general anesthesia by William T. G. Morton

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