William James Morton (1845-1920). Author of America's first X-ray textbook

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William James Morton (1845-1920) was the son of a famous father and by supporting his father is linked to the story of ether anaesthesia. Ether and the dentist William Thomas Green Morton (1819-1868) has far outlasted any medical/ scientific contributions made by the electrotherapist/radiologist William James Morton. It is also noticeable that several of his obituaries make no mention of any of his contributions with X-ray work. In later life he served a prison sentence for fraud relating to non-existing silver mines. The X-ray textbook written by William James Morton, in association with Edwin Hammer, was published in September 1896 and was the first X-ray textbook to be published in the USA. Several X-ray images made by William James Morton are included in this brief biography.

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Mould, R. F. (2018, November 26). William James Morton (1845-1920). Author of America’s first X-ray textbook. Nowotwory. Via Medica. https://doi.org/10.5603/NJO.2018.0026

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