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Gardner Quincy Colton
American anesthetist and inventor
William Thomas Green Morton administering ether anesthesia
William Thomas Green Morton
American surgeon
Horace Wells
Horace Wells
American dentist
Crawford Williamson Long
American physician
Walter Channing
American physician
Hua Tuo
Chinese physician and surgeon
Charles Thomas Jackson
American physician and geologist
Simpson, Sir James Young, 1st Baronet
Sir James Young Simpson, 1st Baronet
Scottish physician
Carl Koller
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