Dr. Morton, pioneer in the use of ether
By: by Rachel Baker. Illustrated by Lawrence Dresser.
Contributors: Dresser, Lawrence T., illus.
Publisher: J. Messner
Published: 1946
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Morton, William Thomas Green, -- 1819-1868; Dentists -- Biography; Anesthesia -- history; Anesthetics -- history; Anesthesiology -- history; Ether, Ethyl -- history
Genres: Biography.
Description: A biography of the man who planned to become a physician, but was forced to study dentistry which led him to examine the sources of pain and, ultimately, to make public the use of ether as an anesthetic.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 218-220.