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The first use of ether in dental surgery, 1846. Oil painting by Ernest Board.

Trials of a public benefactor : as illustrated in the discovery of etherization / by Nathan P. Rice.

Brief of points and proofs in regard to the proposed appropriation to enable the President to procure the surrender of the patent issued to Dr. W.T.G. Morton, for the discovery of the anaestetic properties of sulphuric ether.

An eye-witness account of the discovery of anesthesia / Ayer Washington.

Report [of] the Committee on military affairs and the militia : to whom was referred the petition of Dr. William T.G. Morton, asking compensation for the discovery and gift to his country and mankind of the application of ethereal vapor as a safe and practical anesthesia, or pain subduing agent.

Memorial of the surgeons and physicians of the Massachusetts General Hospital, at Boston, and members of the Massachusetts Medical Society, in support of the claim of W.T.G. Morton, M.D., for the discovery of etherization.

Der aether gegen den Schmerz : Mit einer lithographischen Tafel. (Der Ertrag ist für die Armen bestimmt.).

Discovery of etherization : brief embracing the legal points of Dr. Morton's case.

[Report in regard to the discovery of anaesthesia].

Anaesthetic agents : the respectful notice, protest and memorial of W.T.G. Morton, M.D., discoverer and patentee of etherization : addressed to His Excellency the President, the honorable Secretaries of the Treasury, War, Navy, and Interior, touching the use of his discovery in the public service in violation of his vested rights under the letters patent of the United States.

Circular : Morton's lethēon.

Statements, supported by evidence, of Wm. T. G. Morton, M. D. : on his claim to the discovery of the anaesthetic properties of ether, submitted to the honorable the Select Committee appointed by the Senate of the United States; 32d Congress, 2d session, January 21, 1853.

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Morton, W. T. G. (William Thomas Green), 1819-1868

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Discovery of etherization : brief embracing the legal points of Dr. Morton's case.

[Report in regard to the discovery of anaesthesia].

Circular : Morton's lethēon.

Statements, supported by evidence, of Wm. T. G. Morton, M. D. : on his claim to the discovery of the anaesthetic properties of ether, submitted to the honorable the Select Committee appointed by the Senate of the United States; 32d Congress, 2d session, January 21, 1853.