A narrative of events connected with the introduction of sulphuric ether into surgical use / By Richard Manning Hodges.

  • Hodges, Richard M. (Richard Manning), 1827-1896.
Date:
1891
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Credit: A narrative of events connected with the introduction of sulphuric ether into surgical use / By Richard Manning Hodges. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    to be operated on, the preparation which you have invented to diminish the sensibility to pain. Yours respectfully, C. F. Heywood, House Surgeon to the M. G. H. While these events were taking place, Morton was greatly befriended by Dr. Augustus A. Gould, who lived nearly opposite his office, where the Boston Museum now stands, and with whom he subsequently boarded, from Oc- tober or November, 1846, for two or three months. In August or September Dr. Morton had called upon Dr. Gould at Dr. Jackson's instigation, and conversed with him about his (Morton's) improvements in dentistry, especially his anticipation of being able to extract teeth painlessly. He made a profound impression on Dr. Gould's mind by the emphasis with which he declared: I will have some way yet by which I will perform my operations without pain. Be- ing of a kind and sympathetic nature, Dr. Gould aided and advised Morton in various ways. Dr. Jackson, at one of Morton's visits, had arranged for him an extemporary inhaling appa- ratus, consisting of a large glass flask, with a bent glass tube three feet long. This having