title: Effect of the daguerreotype process on Morton's part in history.
abstract: Because daguerreotype photographs are usually reversed laterally from actuality, images of W.TG. Morton falsely suggest that he sometimes changed the side of the part in his hair. Because of daguerreotype image reversal, a statue of Apollo in the Ether Dome at the Massachusetts General Hospital appears to have been moved for the 50th anniversary of Ether Day.
authors.affiliation: Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
authors.forename: Theodore A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Alston
mesh_terms: D000776:Anesthesiology / Q000266:history*; D001900:Boston; D049672:History, 19th Century; D010781:Photography / Q000379:methods*; D011173:Portraits as Topic