...ether, when breathed or introduced into the lungs of an animal, have produced a peculiar effect on its nervous system ; one which has been supposed to...calculated to produce pain. This is our discovery, and the combining it with or applying it to any operation of surgery, for the purpose of alleviating...

...partieularly those ofsulphuric ether, would prnduee insensibility to pain, or such a stale of quiet nervous action as to render a person or animal incapable, to a great extent. if not entirelr, of experiencing pain while nnder the action o( the knife, or other instrument of operation...

...useful improvement in surgical operations ;" and the whole invention or discovery is thus described : " It has never to our knowledge been known, until our...knife or other instrument of operation of a surgeon capable of producing pain. This is our discovery ; and the combining it with, or applying it to, any...

...ether, when breathed or introduced into the lungs of an animal, have produced a peculiar effect on its nervous system ; one which has been supposed to...calculated to produce pain. This is our discovery ; and the combining it with, or applying it to, any operation of surgery, for the purpose of alleviating...

...ether, when breathed or introduced into the lungs of an animal, have produced a peculiar effect on its nervous system ; one which has been supposed to...if not entirely, of experiencing pain while under tho action of the knife, or other instrument of operation of a surgeon calculated to produce pain....

...ether, when breathed or introduced into the lungs of an animal, have produced a peculiar effect on its nervous system — one which has been supposed...calculated to produce pain. This is our discovery ; and the combining it with, or applying it to, any Morton 11. New York Eye Infirmary. operation of...

...intoxication. It has never, to our knowledge, been known until our discovery, that the inhalation of euch vapors (particularly those of sulphuric ether) would...operation of a surgeon, calculated to produce pain. Thls is our discovery." In addition to this, the vapor of ether, for the last halfcentury, has been...

...insensibility to pain, or such a state of quiet nervous action as to render a person or animal incapalile, to a great extent, if not entirely, of experiencing...calculated to produce pain." " This is our discovery," 4c. " From the experiments we have made, wr are led to prefer the vapors of sulphuric ether to those...

...produced a peculiar effect upon its nervous system; one which has been supposed to be analogous to what is termed intoxication. It has never (to our knowledge)...calculated to produce pain. This is our discovery; and the combining it with, or applying it to, any operation of surgery, for the purpose of alleviating...

...produce insensibility to pain, or such a state of quiet nervous action as to render a person or animals incapable, to a great extent, if not entirely, of...experiencing pain while under .the action of the knife. . . ." This beneficent effect, the court conceded, had never been known before. It was, however, the...