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ON this date in 1846 - After the impassioned cries from Bun Man and Mr. Purple saying "Doc, you gotta give me somethin' for the pain", dentist William T. Morton invented Ether, the painkiller.
It was used for the first time on this date and suddenly Dr Morton found many, many more patients lining up to get their teeth fixed.
@Madken65 He didn't invent it.
"The properties of ether were also well-known before Morton’s operations. In 1800, the distinguished chemist Humphry Davy could be heard speculating that nitrous oxide “appears capable of destroying physical pain”, so it “may probably be used with advantage during surgical operations”. However, proposals that ether could be used in surgical operations were scandalous: pain was believed to be beneficial for healing . . . "
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