

"Paramount's escapist laugh tonic! Hilarious as a whiff of laughing gas!"
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.
Director: Preston Sturges

William Thomas Green Morton

Elizabeth Morton

Professor John C. Warren

Eben Frost

Dr. Horace Wells

Dr. Charles T. Jackson

Vice-President of Medical Society

President Franklin Pierce

Dr. Heywood

Homer Quimby