The biography of Dr. W.T. Morgan, a 19th century Boston dentist, during his quest to have anesthesia, in the form of ether, accepted by the public and the medical and dental establishment.
as William Thomas Green Morton
as Elizabeth Morton
as Professor John C. Warren
as Eben Frost
as Dr. Horace Wells
as Dr. Charles T. Jackson
as Vice-President of Medical Society
as President Franklin Pierce
as Dr. Heywood
as Homer Quimby
as Betty Morton
as Judge Shipman
as Dr. Dahlmeyer
as First Dental Patient
as Senator Borland
as The Priest
as Morton's Sign Painter - replaced by Hank Worden (uncredited)
as Onlooker (uncredited)
as Massachusetts Medical Society Man (uncredited)
as Morton's Clinic Manager (uncredited)
as Morton's Sign Painter - replaced Roscoe Ates (uncredited)
as Presidential Secretary (uncredited)
