HENRY JACOB BIGELOW
A.M., M.D., LL.D.

MEMBER OF THE MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SOCIETY, EMERITUS PRO-
FESSOR OF SURGERY IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY; SURGEON OF
THE MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL; MEMBER OF
THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES;

MEMBER OF THE BOSTON SOCIETY FOR MEDI-

CAL IMPROVEMENT; MEMBER OF THE
BOSTON SOCIETY OF NATURAL
HISTORY;

FOREIGN HONORARY MEMBER OF THE CLINICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON;
MEMBRE CORRESPONDANT ÉTRANGER DE LA SOCIÉTÉ DE CHI-
rurgie de PARIS; MEMBRE HONORAIRE DE LA SOCIÉTÉ
ANATOMIQUE DE PARIS; MEMBRE CORRESPONDANT
DE LA SOCIÉTÉ BIOLOGIQUE DE PARIS; SOCIUS

EXTRANEUS SOCIETATIS MEDICÆ NOR-
VEGICE; ETC., ETC.

BOSTON

LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY

THIS volume contains the Articles by Dr. Bigelow relative to the discovery of Surgical Anæsthesia. Valuable historically and in other respects, they are here reprinted in their chronological order.

It also includes his Addresses, and a few Papers heretofore unpublished.

BOSTON, 1894.

CONTENTS.

SURGICAL ANESTHESIA.

INSENSIBILITY DURING SURGICAL OPERATIONS PRODUCED BY

INHALATION, 1846: The First Public Announcement of the

Discovery of Surgical Anæsthesia .

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INSENSIBILITY DURING SURGICAL OPERATIONS PRODUCED BY

INHALATION, 1846 .

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ETHER AND CHLOROFORM: Their History, Surgical Use, Dangers,

and Discovery, 1848

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ANESTHETIC AGENTS: Their Mode of Exhibition and Physiologi-

cal Effects, 1848 .

THE DISCOVERY OF MODERN ANESTHESIA.

THE DISCOVERER OF SURGICAL ANESTHESIA

KEROSOLENE, 1861.

A NEW ANESTHETIC.

RHIGOLENE: A Petroleum Naphtha for producing Anæsthesia by

Freezing, 1866

NITROUS OXIDE GAS FOR SURGICAL PURPOSES IN 1848, 1868

ADDRESS AT THE DEDICATION OF THE ETHER MONUMENT IN

THE PUBLIC GARDEN OF THE CITY OF BOSTON, 1868. . . 101

ANESTHETIC INHALATION, 1870. ..

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A SUGGESTED PHYSIOLOGY OF ANESTHESIA

A HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY OF MODERN ANESTHESIA, 1876 134

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