Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1913 — First to Use Chloroform. [ARTICLE]

First to Use Chloroform.

Chloroform an as anaesthetic was first used on the 80th of September, 1846, by Dr. W, T. G. Morton, a dentist, of Boston, in a case of tooth extraction, and thereafter by him in many difficult operations. The news of the discovery reached England In December, 1846, and British dentists immediately began to use it. Sir James Simpson, a Scotch physician (1811-1870) was the first to use it in hospital practice and this he did in 1847. His discovery was considered independent of that by the Boston dentist and in 1866 he was knighted. He had a public funeral when he died and a statue of him in bronze stands in Edinburgh.