The first to use surgical anesthesia in history was a Dentist On September 30, 1846, William Thomas Green Morton was the first American dentist to perform a painless tooth extraction in which he used ether as an anesthesia agent, in his dental office. Then, a few days later, on October 16, 1846, Morton was the first to publicly demonstrate the use of ether anesthesia on patients at the Massachusetts General Hospital, convincing the medical world of the importance of pain free surgical procedures
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