Robert Mortimer Glover, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Robert Mortimer Glover

British surgeon

Date of Birth: 02-Nov-1815

Place of Birth: South Shields, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 10-Apr-1859

Profession: surgeon, university teacher

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Dr Robert Mortimer Glover FRSE (1815-1859) was an English physician.
In 1838 he co-founded the Paris Medical Society and served as its first Vice President.
He won the Medical Society of London’s Fothergill Gold Medal in 1846 for his lecture "On the Pathology and Treatment of Scrofula".
Some 5 years prior to James Young Simpson’s use of chloroform on human patients in 1842 Glover discovered its anaesthetic qualities on laboratory animals.
He is sometimes called "the true discoverer of chloroform".
In an ironic twist of fate he died from a chloroform overdose.