M0001848: Reproduction of an oil painting depicting the first use of ether in dental surgery used by dental surgeon William Thomas Green Morton (1819-1868) in 1846, by Ernest Board

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M0001848: Reproduction of an oil painting depicting the first use of ether in dental surgery used by dental surgeon William Thomas Green Morton (1819-1868) in 1846, by Ernest Board