Statements, Supported by Evidence, of Wm. T. G. Morton, M. D.: On His Claim to the Discovery of the Anaesthetic Properties of Ether, Submitted to the Honorable the Select Committee Appointed by the Senate of the United States; 32d Congress, 2d Session, January 21, 1853U.S. Senate, 1853 - 582 страници |
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Academy acquainted administered affidavit agents in surgical anaesthetic anæsthetic agent anesthesia answer application asked asphyxia Bigelow Boston C. T. Jackson Charles chloroform claim committee Connecticut conversation with Dr covery dentist deposition discovery of etherization effects of ether Elie de Beaumont Ellsworth Erastus Smith ether discovery ether vapor evidence experiments extracting teeth fact give Hartford Hayden heard honor Horace impression inhalation insensibility to pain interrogatory interview January knew known letter Marcy Massachusetts General Hospital matter ment nitrous oxyd gas November object October opinion oxide pain in surgical paper patent performed personal knowledge physician present prevent pain Ques question R. H. Dana recollect referred remember reply request Spear spoken sponge statement sulphuric ether Surgeon U. S. surgery surgical operations testimony tion told tooth W. T. G. Morton Warren Wells's William T. G. Morton witness
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Страница 28 - Monday night. If the operation of administering the gas is not attended with too much trouble, and will produce the effect you state, it will undoubtedly be a fortune to you, provided it is rightly managed. Yours in haste, H. WELLS.
Страница 50 - I found the ether so strong that it partially suffocated me, but produced no decided effect. I then saturated my handkerchief and inhaled it from that. I looked at my watch and soon lost consciousness.
Страница 177 - The knife is searching for disease, — the pulleys are dragging back dislocated limbs, — nature herself is working out the primal curse, which doomed the tenderest of her creatures to the sharpest of her trials ; but the fierce extremity of suffering has been steeped in the waters of forgetfulness, and the deepest furrow in the knotted brow of agony has been smoothed for ever.
Страница 74 - Morton, a dentist, with the request that he would try the inhalation of a fluid which, he said, he had found to be effectual in preventing pain during operations upon the teeth.
Страница 74 - ... Warren and the other gentlemen present, the patient did not shrink, nor cry out, but during the insulation of the veins he began to move his limbs and utter extraordinary expressions, and these movements seemed to indicate the existence of pain ; but after he had recovered his faculties he said that he had experienced none, but only a sensation like that of scraping the part with a blunt instrument, and he ever afterward continued to say that he had not felt any pain.
Страница 132 - Cheshelden and Hunter and Cooper could see what our eyes daily witness, how would they long to come among us, and perform their exploits once more ! And with what fresh vigor does the living surgeon, who is ready to resign the scalpel, grasp it, and wish again to go through his career under the new auspices...