M0009685: Morton's ether inhaler (glass bowl with sponges)

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Morton's later inhaler.

Photograph of a replica of an apparatus for administering ether devised and used by W. J. G. Morton in 1846. The replica was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1936 (accession number R1960/1936). It is not held by Wellcome Collection.

04 October 1946

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8.3 x 10.8 cm

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.