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Anesthesia and analgesia · Jun 2022
ReviewWilliam T. G. Morton's English Patent for Etherization: Patently Pointless?
- Rajesh P Haridas, Laurence E Mather, and George S Bause.
- From the Retired anesthetist, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
- Anesth. Analg. 2022 Jun 1; 134 (6): 1326-1336.
AbstractBoston dentist William T. G. Morton secured a provisional English patent for etherization in December 1846. The full patent specification was submitted 6 months later, and the patent was sealed on June 18, 1847. The enrolled copies of the provisional and full patents, which are held in The National Archives, London, have not been previously documented in the anesthesia literature. We review the communications between Boston and London regarding the patent for etherization, the possibility that preliminary discussions and trials of etherization may have been conducted in London before the earliest known application of the discovery for a dental extraction on December 19, 1846, and the role of the American lawyer James Augustus Dorr, who was Morton's agent in the United Kingdom.Copyright © 2022 International Anesthesia Research Society.
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