A History of the Massachusetts general hospitalTrustees from the Bowditch fund, 1872 - 734 pages |
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admission admitted Amory annual meeting annual report Apothecary Appleton appointed a Committee April Belknap Bell bequest Bigelow Boston Bowditch Brimmer Chairman Charles claims communication Corporation Dexter donation duties Ebenezer Francis Edward Edward Tuckerman elected Enoch Hale Estate ETHER DISCOVERY experiments fact females Francis free beds George Hayward Henry honor House Physician hundred dollars inhalation insensibility institution interest Jackson Jacob Bigelow James Jackson John Joseph July June legacy letter Lowell males March Massachusetts General Hospital Medical and Surgical Messrs Metcalf mittee Morton nitrous oxide pain pamphlet patients Physicians and Surgeons pital prepare the annual present Province House re-elected received referred resigned Robert Hooper Rogers Rufus Wyman Samuel Samuel Appleton says Sept subscriptions sulphuric ether Superintendent surgical operations testimony Thomas thousand dollars tion Trustees Visiting Committee voted ward Warren William William Appleton William T. G. Morton Wyman
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Page 279 - Edwtrds, from the Select Committee, to whom the subject was referred, made the following Report : — The Select Committee, to whom was referred the memorial of...
Page 691 - And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were -possessed with devils, and those which were lunatic, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.
Page 327 - 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 ! " endeavor to realize the mental condition which precedes a surgical operation.
Page 224 - 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 forever.
Page 128 - Xo other change was made in any of the appointments. Mr. Hallet made application to purchase a free bed for life; and, on Feb. 21, a Committee was appointed to consider that general subject. On March 6, the Physicians and Surgeons were requested to report a system of diet for the patients; and, on March 20, their report was presented accordingly. Messrs. Eliot and Thorndike were then appointed a Committee to make an additional purchase of land near the Asylum, for a price not exceeding twenty thousand...
Page 46 - Toward us who believe, according to the working of his mighty power which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead (and set him at his own right hand, in the heavenly places, far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world but in that which is to come.
Page 330 - Faye on its thirteenth return. Professor Peirce read some correspondence between Dr. Gerling of Marburg and Lieutenant Gillis, communicated by the latter, and offered the following resolutions, which were adopted. " Resolved, That, in the opinion of this Academy, the enterprise for determining the solar parallax, in the method proposed in the correspondence between Lieutenant Gillis and Dr. Gerling, is worthy to be promoted by the government of the United States, by sending an expedition to Chiloe,...
Page 226 - Pearson on the inhalation of ether," also " a letter from one of Dr. Thornton's patients, in which the patient himself gives an account of the inhalation of ether, by Dr. Thornton's advice, and its effects in a case of pectoral catarrh. He says, 'It gave almost immediate relief both to the oppression and pain in the chest.
Page 234 - I am ready to acknowledge my indebtedness to men and to books for all my information upon this subject. I have got here a little and there a little. I learned from Dr. Jackson, in 1844, the effect of ether directly applied to a sensitive tooth, and proved, by experiment, that it would gradually render the nerve insensible. I learned from Dr. Jackson, also...
Page 285 - It has never (to our knowledge) been known until our discovery, that the inhalation of such vapors (particularly those of sulphuric ether) would produce insensibility to pain, or such a state of quiet of nervous action as to render a person or animal incapable to a great extent, if not entirely, of experiencing pain while under the action of the knife, or other instrument of operation of a surgeon, calculated to produce pain. This is our discovery...