Tarnished Idol. William Thomas Green Morton and the Introduction of Surgical Anesthesia. A Chronicle of the Ether Controversy.
San Francisco: Norman Publishing, 2001. Tarnished Idol is the first serious, scholarly biography of William T. G. Morton, the self-trained Boston dentist who is credited with demonstrating to the medical profession in 1846 the efficacy of sulfuric ether in allaying the pain of surgery. It is also the first detailed..... More