A History of the Massachusetts General Hospital

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J. Wilson & son, 1851 - 442 страници
 

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Страница 216 - The invention all admired, and each, how he To be the inventor missed ; so easy it seemed Once found, which yet unfound most would have thought Impossible...
Страница 248 - Edwards, from the Select Committee, to whom the subject was referred, made the following Report : — The Select Committee, to whom was referred the memorial of...
Страница 42 - Toward us who believe, according to the working of his mighty power which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead (and set him at his own right hand, in the heavenly places, far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world but in that which is to come.
Страница 252 - It has never (to our knowledge) been known until our discovery, that the inhalation of such vapors (particularly those of sulphuric ether) would produce insensibility to pain, or such a state of quiet of nervous action as to render a person or animal incapable to a great extent, if not entirely, of experiencing pain while under the action of the knife, or other instrument of operation of a surgeon, calculated to produce pain. This is our discovery...
Страница 331 - A fund of ten thousand dollars, the income of which is to be awarded to a graduate of Amherst College who has distinguished himself in the study of history while an undergraduate and desires to engage in further study on that subject. The beneficiary is to be a member of the graduating class of the year preceding that in which he holds the Fellowship. 3. A fund...
Страница 276 - It strikes the mind with some surprise that Dr. Jackson should claim this operation as an experiment, made by him at his request, and to satisfy himself of the efficacy of the " ethereal vapor " in a capital operation ; when the only connection which he had with the operation was to decline attending it when specially invited.
Страница 258 - June, 1846, and desired to make some arrangement that would relieve him from the cares of his office, as he had an idea in his head connected with dentistry, which he thought would be one of the greatest things ever known, and that he wished to give all his time to its development. He at first declined to state its nature, but at length told Dr. Hayden it was something he had discovered which would enable him to extract teeth without pain ; said that he had already tried its effects upon a dog, and...
Страница 24 - It also adds, that the Trustees have " procured a grant of land west of the Almshouse [on Leverett Street], upon which they have voted to erect the General Hospital, as soon as the moneys, which they flatter themselves will be readily subscribed, shall have been collected.
Страница 199 - Discovery by Charles T. Jackson, MD, of the Applicability of Sulphuric Ether in Surgical Operations.

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