Word: mortons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other new AVC officers are Simon O'Leary, vice chairman; Morton Sills, treasurer; Thomas Donahue, secretary, and Charles Cobb, delegate to the Area Council...
...chatty Boston Evening Journal offered its readers this one-paragraph scoop on the first full-dress demonstration of anesthesia. The show had been shrewdly staged by publicity-wise, 27-year-old Dentist William Thomas Green Morton and a Journal reporter named Albert Tenney. Dr. Morton's "preparation," fed to the patient through a tube from a corked flask, was ether, disguised with aromatic essences to hide the "secret." The operation, conducted by Dr. John Collins Warren, frock-coated chief surgeon of Massachusetts General Hospital, made a profound impression on doctors and medical students in the small, gloomy amphitheater. Cried...
Last week 4,000 top-rank U.S. scientists and medicos went to Massachusetts General to celebrate the centennial of Morton's and Warren's historic operation. After reverent visits to the famed Ether Dome, now a medical shrine, the scientists settled down, in a huge tent pitched outside the hospital, to a three-days' appraisal of the ether century. The consensus, as summed up by Dr. Henry Knowles Beecher, Massachusetts General's anesthetist in chief: Anesthesia "was perhaps man's greatest and most original discovery. . . . If, at a stroke, the world's poverty were...
...Morton was not ether's inventor (it had been known since the 16th Century - in the 1830s, "ether frolics" were a popular substitute for drinking), nor even the first to use it in an operation.* But medical historians agree that Morton started the new era in surgery. Three months after his demonstration, surgeons on both sides of the Atlantic were giving ether; the screams and struggles of patients on the operating table had begun to subside...
Winners among the oil painters were Daniel J. Coolidge '49 and Morton Margolis '49; for water colors were Harry L. W. Brorby '49 and Stewart D. Kranz '49. Photograph and sketching honors went to David K. Waer '45, Peter H. Davison '49, Bartiett M. Hauthaway '46, and Henry E. Erhard...