PCT4292703 First surgical operation with sulfuric ether anesthesia at Boston Hospital, performed on October 16, 1846 by American surgeon and dentist William Thomas Green Morton (1819-1868). He was the first to use ether as an anesthetic in surgery - (William Thomas Green Morton, American dentist, who first successfully used inhaled ether as an anesthetic in surgery - The patient was operated without disinfection and ether anesthesia, experienced for the first time on 16 October 1846) - engraving from the ???onders of the science??by Louis Figuier, 1868 -; (add.info.: First surgical operation with sulfuric ether anesthesia at Boston Hospital, performed on October 16, 1846 by American surgeon and dentist William Thomas Green Morton (1819-1868). He was the first to use ether as an anesthetic in surgery - (William Thomas Green Morton, American dentist, who first successfully used inhaled ether as an anesthetic in surgery - The patient was operated without disinfection and ether anesthesia, experienced for the first time on 16 October 1846) - engraving from the ???onders of the science??by Louis Figuier, 1868 -); by Patrice Cartier.