M0009685: Morton's ether inhaler (glass bowl with sponges)

Date:: 04 October 1946

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/85/43

Part of:: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

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Wellcome Trust Corporate ArchiveWT
- Direct activitiesWT/D
  - Library and MuseumWT/D/1
    - Images from the photographic libraryWT/D/1/20
      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0009644-M0009755WT/D/1/20/1/85
        M0009685: Morton's ether inhaler (glass bowl with sponges)WT/D/1/20/1/85/43

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M0009685: Morton's ether inhaler (glass bowl with sponges). In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Also known as

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Morton's later inhaler.

Description

Photograph of a replica of an apparatus for administering ether devised and used by W. J. G. Morton in 1846. The replica was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1936 (accession number R1960/1936). It is not held by Wellcome Collection.

Publication/Creation

04 October 1946

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8.3 x 10.8 cm

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

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