Morton's Letheon: When was the name Letheon chosen?
Anesthesia
Ether
Letheon
William T. G. Morton
Journal
Journal of anesthesia history
ISSN: 2352-4537
Titre abrégé: J Anesth Hist
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101651624
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
03 2021
03 2021
Historique:
received:
19
08
2020
accepted:
26
12
2020
entrez:
14
6
2021
pubmed:
15
6
2021
medline:
24
8
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Letheon was the commercial name that Boston dentist William T. G. Morton chose for his ether-based "preparation" that was inhaled to produce insensibility during surgical and dental procedures. The multiple editions of Edward Warren's Some Account of the Letheon (1847) as well as Nathan P. Rice's Trials of a Public Benefactor (1859) provide the only known accounts of the meeting hosted by the physician Augustus A. Gould at which the name Letheon was chosen. Neither Warren nor Rice mentions when the meeting occurred. In all likelihood, it was held at some point in a three-week period from mid-November to just short of December 9, 1846, the publication date of the earliest known reference to the name. The absence of the word Letheon in Morton's public notices around the end of November 1846 or, indeed, in any document until his December 9 advertisement in The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal suggests a later date for the meeting than has been previously reported.
Identifiants
pubmed: 34120708
pii: S2352-4529(20)30038-4
doi: 10.1016/j.janh.2020.12.009
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Anesthetics, Inhalation
0
Ether
0F5N573A2Y
Types de publication
Biography
Historical Article
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
1-10Sujets (noms de personnes)
{'last_name': 'Morton', 'fore_name': 'William T G', 'initials': 'WTG'}
Informations de copyright
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