Anaesthetic agents : the respectful notice, protest and memorial of W.T.G. Morton, M.D., discoverer and patentee of etherization : addressed to His Excellency the President, the honorable Secretaries of the Treasury, War, Navy, and Interior, touching the use of his discovery in the public service in violation of his vested rights under the letters patent of the United States.

  • Morton, W. T. G. (William Thomas Green), 1819-1868.
Date:
1854
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Credit: Anaesthetic agents : the respectful notice, protest and memorial of W.T.G. Morton, M.D., discoverer and patentee of etherization : addressed to His Excellency the President, the honorable Secretaries of the Treasury, War, Navy, and Interior, touching the use of his discovery in the public service in violation of his vested rights under the letters patent of the United States. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Ofc6urse,the ffreat thought is that of producing insensibility, and for that the world is, 1 think, indebted to you. I read a paper lately to our society, showing thai it was recommended by Pliny, &c., in old times, ^ With very great esteem It'r you, allow me to subscribe myself, Y^jurs, very faithfully, J. Y. SIMPSON. Dr. W. T. G. Morton. • [Extract of a letter from J. Parkman, M. D., of Boston.^ Life may also be saved from the more ready submission of the pa- tients to necessary operations, since they can be assured that they are painless. And inasnmch as pain and spasm do destroy life, it is fair to presume that agents relieving these must diminish mortality. In private practi«;e in this city anesthetic agents are in universal use in all surgical operations, and also in all the operations of midwifery. They are in quite general use in all diseases requiring an antidote to pain and spasm, as one of the means to allay them, and some practi tioners use them in all cases of child-birth. I remain, very respectfully, J. PARKMAN, : One of the Surgeons of tlte Mass. Gen. Hospital. Hon. W. H. BissELL. [Extract of a letter from S. D, Townsend, M. D., of Boston.] It has been used almost daily for diseases of a spasmodic and painful character, and in all surgical operations, with the eifect of relieving pain and annihilating perfectly all sulFering in surgical operations. I believe it diminishes mortality, by relieving spasmodic diseases, and preventing the severe shock of surgical operations, in private practice it has been used to the same extent, and in the same classes of cases, and with the same result as occurring in the Massachusetts General Hospital, with the addition of cases of midwifery, in which it prevents the sensation of pain, without retarding delivery. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, S, D. TOWNSEND, One of the Surgeons of the Mass. Gen. Hospital. [Extract of a letter from S. Mason Warren, M. D,, of Boston.] Sulphuric ether and strong chloric ether are used at the Massachu- setts General Hospital. Chloroform is not used. The above substances are used in almost every surgical opei-alion,and in many diseases attended with severe pain. I have seen them exhib- ited in more than two thousand cases, including hospital and private practice, and never with any bad result. By preventing the severe