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Record ID marc_columbia/Columbia-extract-20221130-008.mrc:489570973:2992
Source marc_columbia
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245 00 $aHistorical memoranda relative to the discovery of etherization :$band to the connection with it of the late Dr. William T. G. Morton /$cprepared by the Committee of Citizens of Boston Chosen to Raise a Morton Testimonial Fund.
260 $aBoston :$bPrinted by Rand, Avery, & Frye, 3 Cornhill,$c1871.
300 $a16 p. ;$c23 cm
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500 $a"Inventor and revealer of anaesthetic inhalation. Before whom, in all time, surgery was agony. By whom, pain in surgery was averted and annulled. Since whom, science has controlled pain. Inscription on Dr. Morton's Monument at Mount Auburn"--T.p. verso.
500 $aIssued in grey printed wrappers; t.p. machined on front cover with double ruled border.
500 $aIncludes reference to Dr. C. T. Jackson and to Prof. Morse: "After the complete triumph of Dr. Morton was acknowledged, Dr. Jackson declared, that, five years before, he himself had 'inferred' that such success would be the result (very much in the same manner as when, in 1837, he claimed to have invented the magnetic telegraph and to have communicated his invention to Prof. Morse in 1832)."--P. 5.
500 $aIncludes letters from Dr. H. J. Bigelow verifying Dr. Morton's discovery of ether, testimonial letters from other doctors and an appendix containing correspondence between Dr. Wells and Dr. Morton.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
600 10 $aMorton, W. T. G.$q(William Thomas Green),$d1819-1868.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83826974
600 10 $aJackson, Charles T.$q(Charles Thomas),$d1805-1880.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83826973
600 10 $aMorse, Samuel Finley Breese,$d1791-1872.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50070284
650 0 $aEther.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045081
650 0 $aAnesthesia$xHistory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009114924
650 2 $aEthers.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004987
650 2 $aAnesthesia$xhistory.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D000758Q000266
655 7 $aLetters$zMassachusetts$zBoston$y19th century.$2rbgenr
710 2 $aCommittee of Citizens of Boston Chosen to Raise a Morton Testimonial Fund.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr93045868
700 1 $aBigelow, Henry Jacob,$d1818-1890.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50018018
752 $aUnited States$bMassachusetts$dBoston.$2naf
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