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Amory Amos Lawrence annual meeting annual report Apothecary Appleton appointed a Committee April Belknap bequest Bigelow Board of Visitors Boston Bowditch building Chairman Charles claims Corporation discovery donation duties Ebenezer Francis Edward Edward Tuckerman elected Enoch Hale Estate experiments females Francis free beds George Hayward Henry honor House Physician hundred dollars inhaled insensibility institution Insurance Company Jacob Bigelow James Jackson John John Lowell July June Lawrence letter Lowell M'Lean Asylum males March Massachusetts General Hospital Medical and Surgical ment Messrs Metcalf mittee Morton nitrous oxide pain pamphlet patients persons Phillips prepare the annual present Province House Quincy re-elected received resigned Robert Hooper Rufus Wyman Samuel says Sept subscriptions sulphuric ether Superintendent surgical operations testimony thanked Thomas thousand dollars tion Treasurer was authorized Trustees Visiting Committee voted Ward Warren William William T. G. Morton Wyman
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Страница 215 - intense physical pain, while he was cutting a wisdom-tooth." — " He says: ' As nitrous oxide, in its extensive operation, appears capable of destroying physical pain, it may probably be used with advantage during surgical operations in which no great effusion of blood takes place? " —" In the article ' Ether,' in the Diet, des Sc. Med., vol. xiii., published in
Страница 334 - who, disgusted with failure, abandoned his attempts. — These and others had hypotheses, as well as Dr. Jackson. Morton alone proved the hypothesis. Without Morton, there is no evidence that the world would have known ether till the present day. I believe this covers the ground of important argument and difference in the pamphlets. "I beg
Страница 239 - the accompanying pamphlet. Since it was published, we have had various other operations performed here, equally successful. I have a note from Mr. Liston, telling me also of its perfect success in London. Its rapidity and depth are amazing. " In the Monthly Journal of Medical Science for September, I have a long article on
Страница 6 - President of the Senate, Speaker of the House, and the Chaplains of both Houses, are with sickness, and oftentimes much more than inconveniences. With so much difficulty is the care of them attended in private families, that many gentlemen would pay the board of their servants at a hospital, in preference to having them sick in their own houses. In some
Страница 333 - and Mr. Metcalf, that I was experimenting with ether before the interview in which you claim to have brought it to my notice. 2d, In 1842, you only rediscovered what was before clearly in print in Pereira's Materia Medica. 3d, You claim to have told Mr.
Страница 132 - genial visit in itself combines The best of cordials, tonics, anodynes. Such is the visit that, from day to day, Sheds o'er my chamber its benignant ray. I give
Страница 4 - already in the habit of cherishing them, — to those who indulge in the true luxury of wealth, the pleasures of charity. The questions which first suggest themselves on this subject are, whether the relief afforded by hospitals is better than can be given in any other way; and whether there
Страница 220 - Mr. Theodore Metcalf, in a note to Dr. Morton, dated Dec. 20, 1847, says: " I can only state that I remember to have met you at Mr. Burnett's store early in the summer of 1846, and to have had a conversation with you in regard to the medicinal qualities of sulphuric ether, a quantity of
Страница 232 - and, I believe, I am the only person in the world to whom this discovery has so far been a pecuniary loss." than by subjoining the following copy of the document referred to:— "To the Senate and House of Representatives
Страница 6 - left without proper care, a calamity, which might have been transient, is prolonged through life. The number of such persons, who are rendered unable to provide for themselves, is probably greater than the