PROCEEDINGS IN BEHALF OF THE MORTON TESTIMONIAL. BOSTON: PRINTED BY CEO. C. RAND & AVERY, N.O. 3 CORNHILL. 186 1. FORM OP CIRCULAR SENT TO THE MEDICAL GENTLEMEN OP EUROPE. Boston, (Massachusetts,) Etats-Unis d'Amdrique, 1861. A Messieurs Us Mideclns de VEurope. Le Soussignd, autorisd a cet effet par un corps de Medecins Amdricains, a respec- tueusement l'honneur de s'adresser a vous, en faveur d'un mouvement qui se fait main- tenant parmi nous, dans I'intention de procurer au Docteur Wm. T. G. Morton, de Boston, une expression proportionnee au sentiment reconnaissant entretenu par ses semblables, pour le bienfait qu'il leur a confere par l'introduction de l'Ethdrisation. Dans I'opinion presque unanime de la profession en Amerique, aussi bien que de notre Gouvernement National et des institutions competentes, le Docteur Morton a ete le premier a faire la ddcouverte ou a demontrer le grand fait physiologique, que le systeme humain est capable d'etre placd surement dans une condition dans la quelle il derient insensible aladouleur; etilaprouvd la possibilite et la surete" de l'Ethdrisation, qui conduisit immddiatement a l'usage du Chloroforme et d'autres agents Anaesthetics. Nous avons jadis essaye de manifester notre profond respect pour le nom de Jenner, et nous manifestons maintcnant de semblables sentiments pour celui de John Hunter, par une co-operation cordiale, dans le but d'dlever des statues a la mdmoire immortelle de ces grands bienfaiteurs de leur race. Nous esperons dans notre sympathie pour l'Europe, une co-operation semblable, en faveur de l'homme qui a confere au genre humain un bienfait second seulement en val- eur a la ddcouverte de la vaccine. Le Docteur Morton n'a rctird lui-memc aucun avantage de ses efforts; au contraire 11 a dtd apauvri par eux. Nous n'esperons par lui ofFrir un equivalent pour le service qu'il a rendu a l'humanite, mais nous membres d'une profession, dont les travaux jour- naliers sont dclairds par la possession d'une telle ressource, pour le soulagement des souffrants, nous esperons avec conflance votre aide en procurant un substcntiel temoig- nage qui puisse porter quelquc petite proportion au bien qu'il a fait. president: Dr. James Jackson, Professeur Emerite de Theorie et de Pratique de Medicine a l'Universite d'Harvard. vice-presidents: Dr. Jacob Bigelow, Prdsident de 1'Acaddmie Americaine des Arts et Sciences; Dr. George Hayward, Chirurgien Consultant de l'Hopital Gdndral du Massachusetts; Dr. S. D. Townsend, Chirurgien a l'Hopital General du Massachusetts; Dr. Edward Reynolds, Chirurgien Consultant de l'Hopital General du Massachusetts ; C. C. Fel- ton, ll.d., President de l'Universite d'Harvard; Dr. John Homans, Prdsident de la Socidte Medicale du Mass. Medecin Consultant de l'Hopital General duMass.; Dr. John Jeffries, Chirurgien Consultant de l'Hdpital General du Massachusetts; Jared Sparks, ll.d., Aneien President de l'Universite d'Harvard ; Robert C Winthrop, ll.d., Prdsident de la Societe Historique du Massachusetts. COMITK GENERAL: Dr. John C Dalton ; Daniel Tread-well, Autrefois Professeur a l'Universitd d'Harvard; Dr. Charles G. Putnam; Dr. Daniel D. Slade; Dr. Henry I. Bow- ditch, Medecin a l'Hopital Gdndral du Massachusetts ; Dr. Henry G. Clark, Chirur- gien a l'Hopital Gdndral du Massachusetts ; Dr. Oliver Wen dell Holmes, Professeur 3'Anatomie et de Physiologie a l'Universitd d'Harvard; Dr. William J. Dale; Dr. J. Mason Warren, Chirurgien a l'Hopital Gdndral du Massachusetts; Dr. Robert W. Hooper, Chirurgien a l'lnfirmerie Charitable pour les Yeux et les Oreilles du Massa- chusetts; Dr. Henry J. Bigelow, Chirurgien a l'Hopital General du Massachusetts; Dr. Charles E. Buckingham ; Dr. George S. H. Lyman ; Dr. Edward H. Clarke, Professeur de Matiere Medicale a l'Universite d'Harvard; Dr. Luther Parks, Jr.; Dr. J. Baxter Upham. comite executif: Dr. John Ware, Aneien Professeur de Thdorie et de Pratique de Medicine a l'Uni- versitd d'Harvard; Dr. David W. Cheevek ; Dr. J. N. Borland ; Dr. C. D. Homans ; Dr. Robert Ware ; Dr. James C. White ; Dr. Richard M. Hodges ; Dr. Calvin G. Page. administrateuhs: Amos A. Lawrence, Trdsorier de l'Universite d'Harvard; John Lowell. Secretaire,........Francis Minot. (2) \or~\m K.'t . u i ,. i- I ) ' ■ 'ci».7 . 'on PROCEEDINGS IN BEHALF OF THE MORTON TESTIMONIAL. BOSTON: PRINTED BY GEO. C. RAND & AVERY, No. 3 Cornhill 1861. W CA TESTIMONIAL TO DR. WM. T. G. MORTON. Boston, Mass., U. S. A., 1861. More than fourteen years have elapsed since the first application of Sulphuric Ether as an Anaesthetic agent. During this period its use has been extended over the whole civilized world; it has been employed in private dwellings, in hospitals, and upon the field of battle, and has been hailed as the most beneficent gift conferred upon mankind since the discovery of Vaccination. It has enabled every human being to contemplate pain, disease, and death with comparative composure; and its loss, were such a thing possible, would be universally regarded as a calamity to our race. The Anaesthetic properties of Ether, if before known, had never been before practically applied, and except for the courage, energy, and perseverance of Dr. Mor- ton, they would not probably have been applied to this day. The peculiar claim of Dr. Morton is not merely that he introduced the use of Ether, but that he first demonstrated the fact that the human system can be safely reduced to a condition in which it becomes un- conscious of the sufferings of disease, the pain of sur- gical operations, and the pangs of childbirth. The same purpose has since been effected by Chloroform and other agents, but it is not assuming too much to say that, ex- cept for the demonstration of this*great fact of the pos- 4 sibility and safety of Anaesthesia, their employment would never have been suggested. But while all mankind have been benefited, Dr. Mor- ton has been a loser, to a large amount, by his exertions, in a worldly point of view; and in consequence of the time consumed, the expenses incurred, and the suspen- sion of his professional labors, he is less advantageously situated than before. This does not seem just, and it is now proposed to procure and present to him an ade- quate testimonial, not as a compensation, for a full com- pensation is in its nature impossible, but as a remuner- ation for his expenditure, and an expression of the deep and grateful sense entertained by his fellow-creatures of the inestimable benefit he has conferred upon them. With the view of obtaining effectual co-operation in other places, a meeting of a committee of fifty gentle- men was held at the house of Dr. J. Mason Warren, January 26, 1861, and as a result of this meeting the following organization has been adopted. The aid of the medical profession, and the public in general, is now respectfully solicited to assist in carrying into effect this laudable purpose. It is proposed that a public subscrip- tion be instituted, the avails of which shall be paid into the hands of Amos A. Lawrence and John Lowell, of Boston, Trustees, to be held, appropriated, and invested for the benefit of Dr. Morton and his family. 5 PRESIDENT : Dr. JAMES JACKSON, Emeritus Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine, Harvard University. VICE-PRESIDENTS : Dr. JACOB BIGELOW, President American Academy of Arts and Sciences. GEO. HAYWARD, Consulting Surgeon Massachusetts General Hospital. S. D. TOWNSEND, Surgeon Massachusetts General Hospital. EDW. REYNOLDS, Consulting Surgeon Massachusetts General Hospital. C. C. FELTON, LL. D., President Harvard University. Dr. JOHN HOMANS, President Massachusetts Medical Society; Consulting Physician Massachusetts General Hospital. JOHN JEFFRIES, Consulting Surgeon Massachusetts General Hospital. JARED SPARKS, LL. D., Late President of Harvard University. ROBERT C. WLNTHROP, LL. D., President of the Massachusetts Historical Society. GENERAL COMMITTEE: Dr. JOHN C. DALTON. DANIEL TREADWELL. Formerly Rumford Professor in Harvard University. Dr. CHARLES G. PUTNAM. DANIEL D. SLADE. HENRY I. BOWDITCH, Physician to Massachusetts General Hospital. HENRY G. CLARK, Surgeon to Massachusetts General Hospital. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in Harvard University. 6 Dr. J. MASON WARREN, Surgeon to the Massachusetts General Hospital. ROBERT W. HOOPER, Surgeon to the Massachusetts Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary. WILLIAM J. DALE. HENRY J. BIGELOW, Surgeon to Massachusetts General Hospital. CHARLES E. BUCKINGHAM. GEORGE H. LYMAN. EDWARD H. CLARKE, Professor of Materia Medica in Harvard University. LUTHER PARKS, Jr. J. BAXTER UPHAM. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE : Dr. JOHN WARE, Late Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine in Harvard University. DAVID W. CIIEEVER. J. N. BORLAND. C. D. HOMANS. ROBERT WARE. JAMES C. WHITE. RICHARD M. HODGES. CALVIN G. PAGE. TRUSTEES I AMOS A. LAWRENCE, Treasurer of Harvard University. JOHN LOWELL. SECRETARY : FRANCIS MLNOT, Physician to Massachusetts General Hospital. PROCEEDINGS IN BEHALF OF THE MORTON TESTIMONIAL. At a meeting of Medical Gentlemen, held tit the house of Dr. Jacob Bigelow, on the evening of Jan- uary 26, 1861, for the purpose of bringing before the community the claims of Dr. W. T. G. Morton to a sub- stantial recompense for the benefit which he has con- ferred on mankind by the discovery of the anaesthetic properties of Sulphuric Ether, Dr. John Homans was elected Chairman, and Dr. Francis Minot, Secretary; and the following Resolutions were adopted:— Resolved, 1st. That this meeting view with great in- terest and satisfaction the movement inaugurated in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia,* in behalf of the Morton Testimonial, and take this occasion to renew their expression of approval and sympathy. 2d. That the meeting commend the subscription proposed for the Testimonial to the favor and support of the American people, and most cordially join in the commendation bestowed upon it by institutions and scientific men throughout the country. 3d. That in view of the present condition and objects to be attained by the Testimonial, it is expedient to pp. 13 to 34. 8 make an immediate effort to take up a general subscrip- tion in this community, which is the scene of Dr. Mor- ton's labors and experiments, and the city where the discovery was made, and the Testimonial had its origin. 4//*. That a Committee be appointed by the Chair from gentlemen out of the profession, to call on this community, and- solicit donations and subscriptions in behalf of the Testimonial, with power to make additions to their number and substitutions, and to take such other action as they may deem expedient to promote this object. Wi. That a Committee of Medical men be appointed by the Chair to confer with the Committee on Subscrip- tions as to the most efficient means of accomplishing the end in view. Qth. That it is expedient to appeal especially to those who have been relieved by etherization from intense pain, that they may have an opportunity to contribute according to their means. On motion of Dr. Bowditch, the Secretary was re- quested to notify the members of both Committees of their appointment, and to desire them to meet together at such time and place as he may see expedient, to carry out the objects of this meeting. The Chair appointed the following Committees: — LAYMEN. Amos A. Lawrence, 17 Milk Street. Charles Amory, 54 City Exchange. J. Ingersoll Bowditch, 64 Stute Street. John Lowell, 42 Court Street. John T. Stetson, 8 Milk Street. William Appleton, Jr. 24 Tremont Street. Moses Williams, Jr. 105 State Street. Daniel S. Curtis, 4 State Street. 9 John Joseph May, corner Broad and State streets. Martin Brimmer, 48 Beacon Street. A. W. Spencer, 13 Congress Street. Samuel Frothingham, Jr. 59 Franklin Street. Thomas J. Lee, 60 State Street. Warren Sawyer, 7 Blackstone Street. J. D. W. Joy, 17 Milk Street. Prescott Bigelow, 1 Postoffice Avenue. JosEpn Burnett, 27 Central Street. John H. Thorndike, 29 Edinboro' Street. B. W. Taggard, 29 Cornhill. Gardner Brewer, Federal, corner Franklin Street. Theodore Metcalf, 39 Tremont Street. P. W. Chandler, 4 Court Street. Thornton K. Lothrop, 42 Court Street. Charles T. Randall, Devonshire, between Franklin and Summer streets. G. S. Hillard, Niles Block, School Street. James T. Fields, corner School and Washington streets. William G. Weld. Edward T. Eastman. MEDICAL. James Jackson, Henry I. Bowditch, Jacob Bigelow, 0. W. Holmes, George Hayward, John H. Dix, John Ware, Charles G. Putnam, John Homans, J. Mason Warren, S. D. Townsend, Henry J. Bigelow, John Jeffries, Henry G. Clark. A. A. Gould, JOHN" HOMANS, m.d., Chairman. FRANCIS MINOT, m.d., Secretary. 10 The following Address is set forth by a Sub-Com- mittee appointed at a meeting held at the house of Dr. J. Mason Warren, in pursuance of the foregoing object. Boston, March 4, 1861. Sir: We beg leave to address you in regard to the claims and services of Dr. W. T. G. Morton, as con- nected with the discovery of producing insensibility to pain by the anaesthetic effects of sulphuric ether. That this discovery has been an inestimable blessing to mankind, and that it is regarded as one of the most important, applications of science to the uses of life that has been made, even in this age of improvement and progress, is beyond dispute. While there is not an entire unanimity of opinion as to Dr. Morton's claims to the priority of the discovery, all who have investigated the subject agree that the pre-eminent merit of first establishing by experiment what was before only a surmise or a conjecture is his; and that without his courage, energy, and perseverance, the discovery would not have been put into practical operation. This is enough to make Dr. Morton one of the benefactors of his race. His discovery is now in use all over the civilized world; everywhere it is light- ening the trying duties of the Medical Profession; sooth- ing the pain of the suffering, and, what is hardly less valuable, taking away that apprehension of pain, which to the nervous and sensitive is like suffering itself. But Dr. Morton has experienced the common fate of inventors and discoverers. So far from being a gainer, .he has been a loser to a very large amount, by the sac- 11 rifices and expenses incurred by him in introducing his discovery and vindicating his claims. It is not proposed to bestow upon Dr. Morton a pecuniary equivalent for his discovery; indeed, the worth of a discovery like his is not susceptible of a money value, though some ap- proximation to it may be made by considering what sum mankind would be willing to give for such a bless- ing, supposing they had it not. But we think he is justly entitled, not merely to a return of all expenses incurred, but to some further expression of the grateful sense which his services to humanity have everywhere awakened. Thirty thousand pounds were given, in two successive grants, by*the British Parliament to Dr. Jen- ner; and no one would deem a like sum an extravagant remuneration for the civilized world to bestow upon Dr. Morton. The undersigned, a Committee appointed at a Meet- ing of Gentlemen of the Medical and other Professions, held at the house of Dr. J. Mason Warren, on Tuesday, February 26, have the honor to address you on this subject, and to solicit your aid in behalf of the object above set forth. Suqh contributions as you may see fit to make will be received by Amos A. Lawrence or John Lowell, who have consented to act as Trustees of the fund which may be collected, or by any member of the Joint Committee on .the Morton Testimonial. John Homans, *] John Ware, ! Geo. S. Hillard, f Committee. Chas. G. Putnam, J Francis Menot, Secretary. 12 The undersigned having been appointed Trustees of the fund to be raised as a Testimonial to Dr. Morton, for his discovery of Etherization; and having accepted this trust,deem it their duty to state for the information of those ivho may be ashed to contribute, that it is not designed merely to present him v:ilh an honorable memento of the services which he has ren- dered to mankind, but to afford him relief from the embar- rassments which his discovery has brought upon him. It is necessary for us, therefore, to say that Dr. Morton has sacrificed all his property, and all the profits of his profession, in introducing his discovery, and in establishing his claim, and that he has seriously impaired his health; that he has failed to obtain compensation from the Government for the use of Ether by the Army and Navy, though a bill has been twice passed through one House of Congress for that purpose, and that he has no hope of any public compensation. Under these circumstances, is it asking too much to bestow on one who is the author of the most beneficent discovery of this age, the means of an ample support for himself and his family? Bcliermg that all ivho have experienced the inestimable bene- fits of Ether in its various forms in alleviating pain, or ivho have seen its effects upon others, will deem it a privilege to give some substantial proof to the discoverer, of their appreciation of its value, we forbear to give the details of his labors and his misfortunes. AMOS A. LAWRENCE, JO UN LOWELL, Boston, March 4, 1861. Trustees. TESTIMONIAL of THE MEDICAL PROFESSION of PHILADELPHIA, NEW YORK, AND BOSTON. PROCEEDINGS OF THE MEDICAL PROFESSION OF PHILADELPHIA, IN BEHALF OF W. T. G. MORTON, M. D. A meeting of the members of the medical profession who had indorsed the Testimonial in behalf of Dr. W. T. G. Morton, was held at the Hospital Buildings, Spruce Street, on Monday, March 26, 1860 j when, on motion, Dr. Wilson Jewell was called to the chair, and Dr. T. H. Bache was chosen Secretary. The following preamble and resolutions were then offered, and having been read by the Secretary, were unanimously adopted: — " Whereas, after innumerable trials, made during the last fourteen years, it has been established to the satis- faction of the world, that the inhalation of ether may be safely employed for producing insensibility to pain; " And whereas, the attention of the medical profession, and through it -of the public generally, was directed to this fact by Dr. Wm. T. G. Morton, of Boston, who first practically demonstrated that ether may be safely used 14 by inhalation for annulling pain, in the Massachusetts General Hospital, where, on the 16th of October, 1846, a severe surgical operation was successfully performed by the late Dr. John C. Warren, without pain to the patient, whilst under the influence of ether, administered by Dr. Morton; - And ivhereas, our National Government, whilst admit- ting the claims of Dr. Morton, has failed to reward him for this great service to his country and to humanity; " Resolved, That in the opinion of this meeting, the world is indebted to Dr. Morton for having practically proved the value and safety of ether as an anaesthetic agent, and that he is, therefore, entitled to the lasting gratitude of mankind. " Resolved, That we cordially recommend to our fellow- citizens the ' National Testimonial Fund/ lately com- menced in Boston and New York in behalf of Dr. Mor- ton, and that we will do all in our power to influence them to subscribe to the same. "Resolved, That, for the purpose of facilitating the subscriptions, a copy of these resolutions, duly authenti- cated by the officers of this meeting, be furnished to Messrs. Brown, Brothers, & Co., the receivers for this city, together with such other documents in explanation of the Testimonial as may be approved by the officers of this meeting." On motion, the Secretary was directed to transmit a copy of these Resolutions to Dr. Morton. On motion, adjourned. WILSON JEWELL, Chairman. T. II. Bache, Secretary. TESTIMONIAL OF MEMBERS OF THE MEDICAL PROFESSION OF PHILADELPHIA. in behalf of WILLIAM T. G. MORTON, M.D. To their Fellow-Citizens : — February 15, 1860. The vast importance of the effect of the inhalation of Ether, in preventing and suspending pain, has long ceased to be a matter of doubt among the members of the medical profession, and is too well known to the intelligent citizens of Philadelphia to need any further exposition. Etherization has been tested in countless instances, under a great variety of circumstances, during more than twelve years of constant employment by thousands of oper- ators ; and the result of this unsurpassed experience is decisive in confirmation of its safety and efficiency as a suppressor of physical suffering, and a powerful assistant of the healing art. Believing, therefore, that anaesthetic inhalation is the most avail- able and potent means of alleviating pain yet employed in the practice of surgery, and, consequently, that it is one of the greatest gifts to humanity of the present age, we cannot but regard the original and successful introducer of this invaluable boon as entitled to the warm gratitude of mankind. We believe the practical originator of anaesthetic inhalation to be Dr. William T. G. Morton, of Boston, Mass. in whose behalf we are happy to bear witness in this testimonial. We are convinced that he is the one who first resorted to ethereal inhalation for the purpose of producing insensibility to pain in a patient while undergoing a surgical operation, and that 16 he is the one who first succeeded in effecting this result. He was, indisputably, the first to urge the anaesthetic properties of the vapor of ether upon the attention of the medical profession, and thus succeeded in establishing the practice of anaesthetic inhala- tion. We therefore take great pleasure, and at the same time perform an act of duty, in recommending the claims of Dr. Morton to the favorable consideration of our fellow-citizens, and would cordially urge upon them the propriety of showing their estimate of his services by a substantial acknowledgment, such as is manifestly due from an enlightened community to one who has conferred upon its members so inestimable a benefit. We may refer to the annals of medicine in the Old World for many instances in which analogous discoveries of less moment have been recognized and paid for by European governments, sometimes even before their true value had been ascertained. The length of time which has elapsed since the adoption of etheriza- tion has only the more firmly established its position by demon- strating its safety and developing its usefulness. Our National Government has admitted the justice and impor- tance of Dr. Morton's claims in the introduction of ethereal anaesthesia, but has neglected to provide the proper reward. Under these circumstances, the plan of individual contribution has been successfully resorted to by the citizens of Boston and Xew York as the best suited to the temper of our people, and the most likely to reach a satisfactory conclusion. An opportunity is now offered to the citizens of Philadelphia to unite with their neighbors in the same work of benevolence and justice ; and it is in this that we earnestly desire to interest them. We sincerely hope that our townsmen, in whose liberality and sense of right we have great confidence, may join us in rendering the tribute to his merits and necessities which has elsewhere been accorded to him, and which we believe him to deserte. University of Pennsylvania. George B. Wood, m.d., Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine. High L. Hodge, m.d., Professor of Obstetrics and the Diseases of Women and Children. Joseph Carsox, m.d., Professor of Materia Medica and Pharmacy Robert E. Rogers, m.d., Professor of Chemistry. Joseph Leidy, m. d., Professor of Anatomy. 17 Jefferson Medical College. Joseph Pancoast, m.d., Professor of General, Descriptive, and Surg. Anatomy. Chas. D. Meigs, m.d., Professor of Obstetrics and Dis. of Women and Children. Franklin Bache, m.d., Professor of Chemistry. Samuel D. Gross, m.d., Professor of Institutes and Practice of Surgery. T. D. Mitchell, m.d., Professor of Materia Medica and General Therapeutics. Samuel H. Dickson, m.d., Professor of Practice of Medicine. Pennsylvania College. — Medical Department. B. Howard Rand, m.d., Professor of Chemistry. Henry Hartshorne, m.d., Professor of Practice of Medicine. Lewis D. Harlow, m.d., Professor of Obstetrics, &c. William S. Halsey, m.d., Professor of Surgery. William Hembel Taggart, m.d., Professor of Materia Medica. James Aitken Meigs, m.d., Professor of Institutes of Medicine. William II. Gobrecht, m.d., Professor of Anatomy. Pemisylvania Hospital. William W. Gerhard, m.d., Physician. Joseph Pancoast, m.d., Surgeon. James J. Levick, m.d., " Edward Peace, m.d., " John Forsyth Meigs, m.d., " Edward Hartshorne, m.d., " Francis G. Smith, m.d., " Philadelphia Hospital. S. D. Gross, m.d., Surgeon. C. Pendleton Tutt, m.d., Physician. D. II. Agnew, m.d., " John Wiltbank, m.d., " R. J. Levis, m.d., " R. A. F. Penrose, m.d. " R. S. Kenderdine, m.d., Surgeon. Lewis D. Harlow, m.d., " William Mayburry, m.d., Physician. William D. Stroud, m.d., " J. L. Ludlow, m.d., " 3". Da Costa, m.d., " Wills Hospital. S. Littell, m.d., Surgeon. S. L. Hollingsworth, m.d., Physician. Addinell Hewson, m.d., Surgeon. John J. Reese, m.d., T. G. Morton, m.d., " James J. Levick, m.d., " William Hunt, m.d., " A. Douglass Hall, " Episcopal Hospital of Philadelphia. J. C Morris, m.d., Physician. William Hunt, m.d., Surgeon. II. Hartshorne, m.d., " H. E. Drayton, m.d., « J. Da Costa, m.d., " E. S. Kenderdine, m.d., " Wm. Mayburry, m.d., " 18 Charity Hospital of Philadelphia. P. B. Goddard, m.d., Surgery. William H. Pancoast, m.d., Surgery. Z. Ring Jones, m.d., Eye, Ear, and Urinary Organs. H. St. Clair Ash, m.d., Di>ca*cs of Children. Burroughs Price, m.d., Diseases of Digestive Organs, Brain, and Nervous System. A. W. Griffiths, m.d., Obstetrics. Alexander C. Hart, m.d., Diseases of Women. W. E. Weatherly, m.d., Diseases of Respiratory Organs. S. Updegrove, m.d., Diseases of the Skin. J. L. Ludlow, m.d., Fevers and General Diseases. St. Joseph's Hospital of Philadelphia. William V. Keating, m.d., Physician. J. H. B. M'Clellan, m.d., Surgeon. S. Weir Mitchell, ji.d., " Wm. Byrd Page, m.d., " William Keller, m.d., " J6hn H. Brinton, m. d., " A. Bocrnonville, m.d., Obstetrician. Joseph Leidy, m.d., Pathologist. Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Wm. Pepper, m.d., Consulting Physician. Wm. R. Dunton, m d., Attending Phy. JonN F. Meigs, m.d., " R. A. F. Penrose, m.d., " F. W. Lewis, m.d., Attending Physician. T. H. Bache, m.d, " Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane. Thomas S. Kirkbride, m.d., Physician in Chief. Edward A. Smith, m.d., Resident Physician. City Hospital of Philadelphia. John Bell, m.d. Moyamensing Prison. Henry Yale Smith, m.d. Board of Health. P. B. Goddard, m.d., President. 19 Howard Hospital. S. D. Gross, m.d., j D. D. Clark, m.d., J GeneraI and SPecial SurSei7- J. A. Meigs, m.d., Diseases of the Chest. J. Klapp, m.d., Diseases of Digestive Organs. 0. A. Judson, m.d., Diseases of the Skin. G. R. Morehouse, m.d., Diseases of Brain and Nervous System. W Darrach, m.d., Fevers. E. McClellan, m.d., Diseases of Females. Charles Neff, m.d., Diseases of the Urinary Organs. College of Physicians of Philadelphia. GEORGE B. WOOD, m.d., President. Franklin Bache, m.d., Vice-President. Edward Hartshorne, m.d., Secretary. J. Rodman Paul, m.d., Treasurer. John Bell, m.d. Hugh L. Hodge, m.d. Charles D. Meigs, m.d. R. La Roche, m.d. Benjamin Hornor Coates, m.d. Lewis P. Gebhard, m.d. William Darrach, m.d. Theophilus E. Beesley, m.d. William W. Gerhard, m.d. Joseph Pancoast, m.d. D. Francis Condie, m.d. Squire Littell, m.d. Anthony Bournonville, m.d. Joseph Carson, m.d. Thomas S. Kirkbride, m.d. Francis West, m.d. Edward Peace, m.d. William Pepper, m.d. David C. Skerrett, m.d. John D. Griscom, m.d. Paul Beck Goddard, m.d. Alfred Stille, m.d. John J. Reese, m.d. John Forsyth Meigs, m.d. Lewis Rodman, m.d. Francis G. Smith, m.d. Washington L. Atlee, m.d. John Neill, m.d. Samuel D. Gross, m.d. Anthony E. Stocker, m.d. GOUVERNEUR EMERSON, M.D. James E. Khoads, m.d. T. Stewardson, m.d. E. Wallace, m. d. Joseph Klapp, m.d. Samuel L. Hollingsworth, m.d John L. Ludlow, m.d. John H. B. M'Clellan, m.d. William V. Keating, m.d. D. Paul Lajus, m.d. Thomas S. Reed, m.d. Richard H. Townsend, m.d. Isaac Remington, m.d. John B. Biddle, m.d. Henry E. Drayton, m.d. Caspar Morris, m.d. James J. Levick, m.d. Joseph Leidy, m.d. Wilson Jewell, m.d. Henry Hartshorne, m.d. William Keller, m.d. William Mayburry, m.d. TnoMAS Hewson Bache, m.d. James V. Emlen, m.d. Joseph Hopkinson, m.d. William II. Hooper, m.d. Addinell Hewson, m.d. David Gilbert, m.d. B. Howard Rand, m.d. William Hunt, m.d. R. A. F. Penrose, m.d. William H. Gobrecht, m.d. William D. Stroud, m.d. Nathan L. Hatfield, m.d. S. Weir Mitchell, m.d. John H. Brinton, m.d. Francis W. Lewis, m.d. Samuel Lewis, m.d. T. DlLLARD, M.D. G. H. Robinett, m.d. S. C. Brinckle, m.d. 20 Philadelphia Comity Medical Society. ISAAC REMINGTON, m.d., President. David Gilbert, m.d., Vice-President. Joseph Carson, m.d., " W. B. Atkinson, m.d., Secretary. S. D. Gross, m.d. I). Francis Condie, m.d. Wilson Jewell, m.d. Joseph Pancoast, m.d. Charles D. Meigs, m.d. R. E. Rogers, m.d. Edward Peace, m.d. John Bell, m.d. S. Littell, m.d. W. W. (iERIIARD, M.D. I). Paul Lajus, m.d. Addinell Hewson, m.d. J. H. B. M'Clellan, m.d. A. Nebinger, m.d. I). I). Clark, m.d. E. Ward, m.d. S. Weir Mitchell, m.d. J. Cheston Morris, m.d. I.'. H. ToWXsEND, M.D. I. M. Drysdale, m.d. William D. Stroud, m.d. Anthony Bouunonville, m.d. \\. K. Gilbert, m.d. Theophuxs E. Beesley, m.d. R. S. Kenderdine, m.d. C. F. Wittig, m.d. I. II. Haskell, m.d. Roeert Q. Shelmerdine, m.d. Robert C. Shelmerdine, m.d. J. Henry Smaltz, m.d. Levi Curtis, m.d. Samuel B. Wylie Mitchell, m.d. Edward Maris, m.d. Augustus C Courxonvh.ije, m.d. J. G. Hunt, m.d. James V. Emlen, m.d. George B. Wood, m.d. Franklin Bache, m.d. N. L. Hatfield, m.d. Alfred Stille, m.d. William V. Keating, m.d. Hugh L. Hodgk, m.d. Joslph Leidy, m.d. Henry Hartshone, m.d. William Pepper, m.d. Paul B. Goddard, m.d. B. H. Coates, m.d. M. M. Levis, m.d. Francis West, m.d. Lewis D. Harlow, m.d. Lewis Rodman, m.d. James Aitken Meigs, m.d. John Rodman Paul, m.d. William Hunt, m.d. D. Hayes Agnew, m.d. R. J. Levis, m.d. E. B. Shapleigh, m.d. John Knorr, m.d. William Harris, m.d. John Wiltbank, m.d. W. H. Gobrecht, m.d. Samuel Jackson, m.d. A. Owen Stille, m.d. William D. Hoyt, m.d. George J. Ziegler, m.d. Washington L. Atlee, m.d. William Curran, m.d. W. Darrach, m.d. James J. Levick, m.d. J. Forsyth Meigs, m.d. Wm. II. Hooper, m.d. Thomas Hewson Bache, m.d. John D. Griscom, m.d. E. Boylston Jackson, m.d. A. W. Griffiths, m.d. Joseph Klapp, m.d. Owen Osler, m.d. Phild? De Young, m.d. J. F. Bird, m.d. R. H. Lee, m.d. Colin Arrott, m.d. W. Keller, m.d. H. Evans, m.d. Preston W. Russell, m.d. John S. Rohrer, m.d. G. Emerson, m.d. Charles Neff, m.d. D. C. Skerrett, m.d. Wm. Notson, m.d. 21 John Wm. Jones, m.d. F. Scoffin, m.d. A. S. M'Murray, m.d. W. H. GlLLINGHAM, M.D. Henry Yale Smith, m.d. T. Stanton Crowly, m.d. A. H. Fish, m.d. B. H. Deacon, m.d. Wm. J. Fleming, m.d. E. M'Clellan, m.d. L. P. Gebhard, m.d. Wm. F. Patterson, m.d. Wm. Clendaniel, m.d. Andrew Cheeseman, m.d. James N. Patterson, m.d. Joseph Heritage, m.d. J. Hershey. m.d. Wm. Byrd Page, m.d 0. J. Wister, M.D. W. N. Johnson, m.d. E. F. Leake, m.d. A. L. Kennedy, m.d. J. M. Corse, m.d. Abraham Helffenstein, m.d. R. W. Richie, m.d. A. Fricke, m.d. Wm. Ashmead, m.d. John F. Lamb, m.d. H. D. Benner, m.d. W. S. Forbes, m.d. Winthrop Sergeant, m.d. S. C. Huston, m.d. J. Hughes, m.d. E. Sciiolfield, m.d. Northern Medical Association. JOSEPH R. BRYAN, m.d., President. L. P. Gebhard, m.d., Vice-President. Wm. B. Atkinson, m.d., Secretary. Wm. Mayburry, m.d., Corr. Secretary. J. Henry Smaltz, m.d., Treasurer. N. L. Hatfield, m.d. R. H. TOWNSEND, M.D. J. J. Woodward, m.d. A. M. Slocum, m.d. John Rhein, m.d. A. C. Bournonville, m.d. J. M. Eagleton, m.d. L. Curtis, m.d. Owen Osler, m.d. T. W. Craige, m.d. Theo. A. Demme, m.d. J. S. Hill, m.d. S. N. Troth, m.d. L. S. Somers, m.d, D. Gilbert, m.d. R. S. Kenderdine, m.d. R. Q. Shelmerdine, m.d. M. M. Levis, m.d. L. D. Harlow, m.d. R. J. Levis, m.d. W. L. Atlee, m.d. C WlTTIG, M.D. S. Updegrove, m.d. B. Price, m.d. Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania. D. F. CONDIE, m.d., President. Philadelphia Medical Society. E. La Roche, m.d., President. John Neill, m.d., Vice-President. A. E. Stocker, m.d., Secretary. Pathological Society of Philadelphia. A. Sttlle, m.d., President. E. Hartshorne, m.d., Vice-Pres. R. La Roche, m.d., Vice-President. J. Da Costa, m.d., Secretary. John K. Kane, Assistant Secretary. 22 Biological Department of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Joseph Leidy, m.d., President. W. F. Atlee, m.d., Recorder. Profession at Large. C. P. Turner, m.d. 0. A. Judson, M.D. l. d. bodder, m.d. John Gegan, m.d. Samuel Tucker, m.d. Andrew J. Smiley, m.d. C. S. WURTS, M.D. James W. Bacon, m.d. J. R. McClurg, m.d. E. Shippen, m.d. W. S. Shippkn, m.d. C. S. Bishop, m.d. Alexander C. ILvrt, m.d. G. J. Chamberlain, m.d. James Darrach, m.d. A. C Deakyne, m.d. Morris J. Asci', m.d. W. N. Handy, m.d. N. C. Reid, m.d. William Graham, m.d. John H. Brinton, m.d. Robert Bolling, m.d. William M. Breed, m.d. E. L. Carter, m.d. Edward A. Spooner, m,d. George B. Morehouse, m.d. Samuel H. Ashton, m.d. Jas. D. Mundy, m.d. C. P. L.v Roche, m.d. W. Moss, M.D. J. K. T. Van Pelt, m.d. J. M. Boisnot, M.D. J. C. Cooper, m.d. S. H. Horner, m. d. David Burpee, m.d. A. Pennebaker, m.d. E. S. Sharp, m.d. George Spaceman, m.d. Robert Foster, m.d. Edwin Fussell, m.d. William Gregg, m.d. Samuel P. Brown, m.d. PROCEEDINGS AT A MEETING OF THE MEDICAL PROFESSION OF NEW YORK. Ox the 24th of June, a meeting of medical gentlemen, interested in raising a national testimonial for the benefit of the discoverer of Anaesthesia, was held at the residence of Dr. Willard Parker. The hour for organization having arrived, Dr. Parker addressed the meet- ing, explained its objects, and proposed for President Dr. Joseph M. Smith, which nomination, having been seconded, was voted upon and carried. Dr. Gurdon Buck was then elected Corresponding Secretary, and Drs. Bib- bins and Thomas, Recording Secretaries. The meeting being now duly organized, the business of the evening was called for, and proceeded in this wise:— 1. Dr. John Watson read a list of the names of some of the most prominent, benevolent, and wealthy of the citizens of New York, and pro- posed that each gentleman present should charge himself with visiting such of them as he had most, influence with, and raising as large subscriptions as possible to head the list. This was acted upon; a list of one hundred names was read, and the duty of canvassing them assumed by various gentlemen composing the meeting. 2. Dr. Buck moved that a committee of medical men be appointed to confer with gentlemen out of the profession as to the most efficient means for accomplishing the end in view. This was seconded by Dr. Parker, and carried. On the Committee, the President then appointed Drs.JoHNW. Francis, Valentine Mott, James R. Wood, Willard Parker, James Minor, Gurdon Buck, John Watson, J. Marion Sims, Jos. M. Smith ; and upon motion pf Dr. Sayre, the President was added to it. This com- mittee, it was agreed, should meet at the house of Dr. Parker at an early date. 3. It was then moved by Dr. Parker, that a committee of one selected from the Medical Board of each public charity of the city and its vicinity should be appointed to wait upon the Boards directing the various institutions, and solicit donations in behalf of the object which has called us together this 24 evening. This motion was seconded by Dr. Watson, and carried. following appointments were then made by the Chair:— The Dr. Gurdon Buck . James R. Wood J. M. Caenochan Wm. H. Van: Bur en Benj. Ogden J. Moses . J. M. Sims G. L. Elliott Elisha Harris T. F. Cock Hutchinson Ayres Fitch Dubois GARRISn . New York Hospital. Bellevue " Emigrants' " St. Vincent's " St. Luke's " Jews' " Women's " Child's " Quarantine " New York Lying-in Asylum. Brooklyn City Hospital. Long Island College Hospital. Colored Home Hospital. New York Eye Infirmary. New York Ophthalmic Hospital. 4. It was moved by Dr. Watsox, that the minutes of this meeting be transmitted to Dr. Wm. T. G. Morton, by the Secretary, which was carried. No further business appearing, the meeting then adjourned. JOSEPH M. SMITH, m.d., President. Gurdon Buck, m.d., Corresponding Secretary. T. Gaillard TnoMAS, m.d., Recording Secretary. APPENDIX. APPENDIX A. THE NEW YORK APPEAL. The Medical Profession have, from the earliest ages, felt the need of some safe and efficient agent for annulling pain. The ordinary anodynes, long in use, have never supplied this deficiency, and the various new agents which, within the past sixty or eighty years, have been substituted for these, have, until recently, proved either too dangerous or too unreliable to be em- ployed in general practice. Wine and strong alcoholic drinks, given in such quantity as to induce intoxication, were occasionally employed, even before the commencement of the present century, for rendering persons insensible to the pain of surgical operations. With the same end in view, some surgeons, addressing the intellect, were in the habit of exciting sudden fear, alarm, or astonishment, to divert the atten- tion of their patients. Others, again, resorted to the uncertain and inexplicable influence of mesmerism. Still more recently, the nitrous oxide gas, administered by inhalation, has, as originally suggested by Sir Humphry Davy, been employed for producing temporary loss of consciousness. But this, too, after a fair trial, has failed, and the hopes founded upon it have proved nugatory and delusive. So that, up to this point, the want of a reliable agent for rendering the human body insensible to pain—a want so long felt, and to obviate which so many fruitless efforts had been made, — was still to be supplied. That want, however, has since been fully met. The first great triumph of placing in the hands of the profession an agent capable of rendering the patient safely, and at will, utterly insensible to the stroke of the surgeon's knife, was in detecting and establishing by experiment the anaesthetic powers of sulphuric ether. For this discovery the world is indebted to Dr. Wm. T. G. Morton, of Boston. Whatever may have been the steps preliminary to this remark- able discovery, Dr. Morton's claim to it is established beyond all 28 controversy, and his merit in this respect, with those who have taken the trouble to inform themselves on the subject, can be no longer a question of dispute. Nor can the importance of his early investigations and experi- ments under the guidance of Providence, in reference to the prop- erties and uses of ether, be, at the present day, too highly estimated. The introduction of this agent as an anaesthetic, and of the various other agents of the same class—as chloroform, amyline, and the like—to which this directly led, has done more for the mitigation of human suffering than any other discovery, with the exception, perhaps, of vaccination, for which the world is indebted to medical science in either ancient or modern times. The benefit derived from these newly discovered agents is not confined to the hardier procedures of operative surgery. They are now in hourly requisition in every quarter of the civilized world for suspending all sense of suffering during the severest throes of child- birth, for arresting convulsions, for relaxing spasms, for suspending volition and overcoming muscular resistance, during the reduction of fractures and dislocations, for allaying restlessness, wakefulness, and morbid excitability; even for assuaging the pangs of ap- proaching dissolution, not to speak of the almost innumerable minor uses to which they are applied, as well in the investigation as in the treatment of disease. In view of these advantages from the use of anaesthetics, we feel that Dr. Morton, the first to demonstrate their safety and efficiency, and to establish them in general practice, has conferred a boon upon humanity as imperishable as it is important, and one of such a character as to entitle him to rank among the benefactors of mankind. As members of the medical profession in the city of New York, and as physicians and surgeons to the various hospitals and infirm- aries in this city and its vicinity, we therefore rejoice to learn that a movement has been commenced by our professional brethren and other gentlemen of Boston, to establish a national testimonial, by voluntary subscriptions, for the benefit of Dr. Morton. In this movement, after full deliberation and consultation anions our- selves, we are ready to participate in accordance with the plan of those who originated it, which plan is set forth by the gentlemen of Boston in the following terms :— We propose that a national subscription be instituted, the avails of which shall be paid into the hands of Thomas B. Curtis and Charles II. Mills, Esquires, as Trustees,—to be held, appropri- 29 ated, and invested upon such trusts, and for such uses, for the benefit of Dr. Morton, as the Trustees may determine. Under governments more arbitrary and restrictive than our own, but more capable of meeting the claims of science, the awards of merit are not usually left, as with us, to the bounty of private individuals. Discoveries and improvements of infinitely less importance to science or humanity, than that for which we are indebted to Dr. Morton, are at the courts of Europe promptly met by national honors and emoluments. In our own country, it is true, the National Government, after carefully investigating Dr. Morton's claims, has acknowledged the benefit he has conferred upon it, but has nevertheless failed, as yet, to supply the recompense. With these remarks, we have the honor of recommending Dr. Morton's claims for remuneration to the consideration of our fellow-citizens, and of soliciting their subscriptions in behalf of the fund which it is proposed to raise for his benefit. What the Government in this respect has failed to do, it is to be hoped, for the credit of the American name, and from the noble individual examples already set, that the discerning and liberal people of the United States will not leave entirely unaccomplished. PHYSICIANS AND SUEGEONS. Of the JVew York Hospital and Bloomingdale Asylum. Thos. Cock, m.d., Consulting Physician. Alfred C. Post, m.d., Cons'g Surgeon, Jos. M. Smith, m.d., Attending Physician. Gurdon Buck, m.d., Attend. Surgeon. John II. Griscom, m.d., " John Watson, m.d., " Henry D. Bulkley, m.d., " TnAD. M. Halsted, m.d., " Thos. F. Cock, m.d., " Thos. M. Markoe, m.d., " Valentine Mott, m.d., Cons'g Surgeon. Wm. II. Van Buren, m.d., " Alex. II. Stevens, m.d., " Willard Parker, m.d., " Richard K. Hoffman, m.d. " PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS Of Bellevue Hospital, and of tlie other Institutions under the charge of the Board of Governors of the Almshouse. John W. Francis, m.d., Cons'g Physician. Alex. H. Stevens, m.d., Con. Surgeon. Isaac Wood, m.d., " J/» s. R. Wood, m.d., Attending Surgeon. R. W. McCready, m.d., Atten. Physician. Chas. D. Smith, m.d., " John T. .Metcalfe, m.d., " Lewis A. Layre, m.d., " Isaac K. Taylor, m.d., " J- J. Crane, m.d., " B. Fordyce Barker, m.d., " W. Parker, m.d., " Geo. T. Elliott, m.d., " Stephen Smith, m.d., " Valentine Mott, m.d., Cons'g Surgeon. 30 Nursery Hospital, RandalVs Island. HENRY N. WHITTLESEY, m.d., Resident Physician. Quarantine Hospital, Staten Island. R. N. Thompson, m.d., Health Officer Port of New York. Theo. Watson, m.d., Assistant Physician Quarantine Hospital. BlackwelVs Island Hospitals. (Penitentiary Hospital, Smallpox Hospital, and Almshouse.) WILLIAM H. SANGER, m.d., Resident Physician. PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. New York Lunatic Asylum. M. H. RANNEY, Resident Physician. Of the State Emigrant Asylum. J. M. Carnochan, m.d., Sur.-in-Chief. Henry B. Fay, m.d., Phys-in-Chief. T. C. Selden, m.d., Surgeon. Francis Simrock, m.d., Physician. II. Guleke, m.d., " G. Ford, m.d., " St. Vincent's Hospital. Thos. E. Burtsell, m.d., At'g Physician. Alex. B. Mott, m.d., Attend. Surgeon. James O'Rorke, m.d., " Thos. C. Finnell, m.d., " Wm. H. Van Bcren, m.d., At'g Surgeon. St. Luke's Hospital. D. E. EIGLNBRODT, Resident Physician. Jews' Hospital. V. Mott, m.d., Consulting Surgeon. J. Moses, m.d., Attending Surgeon. W. Parker, m.d., " C. R. Gilman, m.d., Attend. Physician. T. M. Markoe, m.d., Attending Surgeon. W. H. Maxwell, m.d., " Alex. B. Mott, m.d., " New York Eye Infirmary. A. Dubois, m.d., Surgeon. C. R. Agnew, m.d., Surgeon. Gurdon Buck, m.d., » F. J. Bumstead, m.d., Assist Surgeon. T. M. HALSTED, M.D., « J. H. HlNTON, M.D., « New York Ophthalmic Hospital. Mvrk Stephenson, m.d., Surgeon. John P. Garrish, m.d., Surgeon. Colored Home Hospital. G. A. Sablne, m.d., Consult'g Surgeon. J. S. Tiiebaud, m.d., Consult. Surgeon. W. Parker, m.d., •< j. D. prrcn, m.d., Resident Physician. 31 Women's Hospital. J. MARION SIMS, m.d., Surgeon. New York Lying-in Asylum. T. F. Cock, m.d., Consulting Physician. G. T. Elliott, m.d., Con. Physician. J. T. Metcalfe, m.d., " Nursery and Child's Hospital. G. T. Elliott, m.d., Attending Physician. Geo. A. Peters, m.d., Attending Phys. H. C. Cox, m.d., " " F. U. Johnston, m.d., " " Demilt Dispensary. Jno. 0. Bronson, m.d., House Physician. Wm. B. Bibbins, m.d., Visiting Phys'n. D. L. Conant, m.d., Attending Surgeon. T. G. Thomas, m.d., Attending Phys'n. Gouv. M. Smith, m.d., " " I. Cummings, m.d., Ass't Visit'g Phys. W. R. Donaghe, m.d., Attending Surg. Elisha Harris, m.d., Attending Phys. Jno. A. Bartholf, m.d., " " New York Academy of Medicine. J. F. Batchelder, m.d., President. John Watson, m.d., Vice-President. W. H. Van Buren, m.d., " S. Conant Foster, m.d., " C. E. Isaacs, m.d., " C. T. Heywood, m.d., Recording Sec'y. S. T. Hubbard, m.d., Dom. Cor. Sec'y. Jas. 0. Tond, m.d, Treasurer. Samuel Rotten, m.d., Librarian. W. W. Blakeman, m.d , Trustee. Ed. L. Beadle, m.d., " Benj. Ogden. m.d., " F. U. Johnston, M.D.Assistant Secretary. J. C. Forrester, m.d., B. F. Barker, m.d., Resident Fellow. H. S. Downs, m.d., Isaac Wood, m.d., Resident Fellow. J. R. Wood, m.d., " Jas. Anderson, m.d., " E. Acosta, m.d., " E. H. Davis, m.d., " A. K. Gardner, m.d., " Ed. Delafield, m.d., " Joel Foster, m.d., " J. C. Beales, m.d., " R. W. Barry, m.d., " H. W. Brown, m.d., " Gurdon Buck, m.d., h. d. bulkley, m.d., f. j. bumstead, m.d., Thos. Cock, m.d., Thos. F. Cock, m.d, J. J. Crane, m.d., Geo. T. Elliott, m.d., T. C. Finnell, m.d., J. W. Francis, m.d., J. P. Garrish, m.d., C. R. Oilman, m.d., J. H. Griscom, m.d., T. M. IIalsted, m.d, E. Harris, m.d., J. H. Hinton, m.d., F. S. Edwards, md., F. Elliott, m.d. R. Pennell, m.d., T. W. Richards, m.d., A. Underhill, m.d., Jos. Wooster, m.d., J. W. S. Gouley, m.d. , E. H. Janes, m.d., C. Henschel, m.d., A. Gescheidt, m.d., A. N. Gunn, m.d., Wm. H. Maxwell, m.d., E. Hall, m.d., Jared Linsley, m.d., John McClelland, m.d., 32 E. Lee Jones, m.d., Resident Fellow, Wm. Minor, m.d., Resident Fellow, B. W. McCready, m.d , " Jos. Martin, m.d., W. Parker, m.d., " J. W. Ranney, m.d., G. A. Sabim:, m.d., " John Priestley, m.d., L. A. Sayre, m.d. " Alex. II. Stevens, m.d., J. M. Sims, m.d., " W. C. Livingston, m.d., " C. D. Smith, m.d., " Stephen Smith, m.d., M. Smith, .m.d., " Geo. Lewis, m.d., " Mark Stephenson, m.d., " Jas. D. Fitch, m.d., J. E. Taylor, m.d., " Charles A. Budd, m.d., " T. G. Thomas, m.d., " N. C. Husted, m.d., " W. H. Van Buren, m.d., " Th's W. Horsfield, m.d., " New York Medical College. Horace Green, m.d., J. M. Carno< han, m.d., Prof, of Sur. President of Faculty. H. G. Cox, m.d., Prof, of The. and Prac. E. H. Davis, m.d., Prof, of Mat. Med. E. R. Pkaselee, m.d., Prof, of Physiol. B. F. Barker, m.d., Prof, of Obstetrics. Chas. A. Budd, m.d., R. Ogden Doremus, m.d., Lecturer on Obstetrics. Professor of Chemistry. New York Pathological Society. E. R. Peaselee, m.d., President. W. B. Bibbins, m.d., Treasurer. E. Harris, m.d., Vice-President. T. C. Finnell, m.d., Curator. E. Lee Jones, m.d., Secretary. Brooklyn City Hospital. James Crane, m.d., Attending Phys. Daniel E. Kissam, Attending Surg. H. S. Smith, m.d. " " J. C Hutchinson, " " George Cochran, m.d. " " • Jos. M. Minor, m.d. ' " C E. Isaacs, m.d., Attending Surgeon. College of Physicians and Surgeons. Thomas Cock, m.d., President. Ed. Delafield, m.d., Emeritus Professor of Obstetrics. Willard Parker, m.d., Professor of Surgery. Joseph M. Smith, m.d., Professor of Materia Medica. C R. Gilman, m.d., Professor of Obstetrics. University Medical College. Wm. II. Van Buren, m.d., Professor of Anatomy. Alfred C. Post, m.d., Professor of Surgery. J. T. Metcalfe, m.d., Professor of Practice. APPENDIX B. THE BOSTON APPEAL. To the Public. The power of etheric vapors to produce a safe insensibility to pain during surgical operations, and on other occasions of great physical suffering, is one of the most beneficent discoveries that has been conferred upon the human race. It is generally conceded that Dr. W. T. G. Morton, of Boston, was instrumental in pre- senting this fact to the world. Nearly the whole of the Medical Profession [see page 35 et seq.~\ of this city, in the midst of whom the discovery was made, together with other bodies of competent persons, who have investigated its origin, have, after careful scrutiny, concurred in assigning this merit to Dr. Morton,—and public opinion has long since affirmed their verdict. It is not necessary to enter in detail into the circumstances which have prevented Dr. Morton from receiving any pecuniary benefit from this discovery. The fact is certain, that Dr. Morton has been an instrument, under Divine Providence, of introducing to the world one of the most remarkable discoveries of this or any other age, and that he has received no reward for it but the consciousness of having done so. We are sure that we interpret the feeling of thousands, when we say that a substantial national memorial should be presented to Dr. Morton. How often has the poor sufferer risen from beneath the surgeon's knife, with nerves untouched by the slightest sensation of the torture that would otherwise have been his! How often has the mother passed in unconscious slumber, through "the perils of childbirth," to wake to her new happiness, without one memory of its agonies, and breathed, with the prayer of thanksgiving to God, a thought of him — to her, perhaps, the unknown discoverer— whose happy conception, perseverance, and courage, first estab- lished the astonishing fact that the human frame may suffer all the 34 conditions, and not one of the sensations of pain! What has already occurred throughout the whole world, since this discovery was made ; in hospitals, in private chambers of the sick, on fields of battle, on the ocean, and on the land—wherever humanity undergoes the " ills that flesh is heir to,"— is to occur through countless ages, while the race is left upon earth! And yet, year rolls after year, and the spontaneous gratitude that is felt and uttered whenever and wherever this great discovery is used or contemplated, finds no permanent voice, because no efforts are made to concentrate and direct it to its object. We propose that such efforts be now made. We think that the people of the United States, acting individually, should do what their government has neglected, or been able to do. National tes- timonials, established by the voluntary contributions of individuals, have been adopted in all countries, to mark the public sense of services to the human family, especially when such services have reflected honor and distinction upon the country where they have been performed. We propose that a national subscription be instituted, the avails of which shall be paid into the hands of Ahos A. Lawrence and Jonx Lowell, Esquires, as Trustees,—to be held, appropriated, and invested upon such trusts, and for such uses, for the benefit of Dr. Morton, as the Trustees may determine. James Jackson, m.d. Jacob Bigelow, m.d. S. D. ToWNSEND, M.D. John Jeffries, m.d. Edward Reynolds, m.d. John Homans, m.d. M. S. Perry, m.d. 0. W. Holmes, m.d. John Ware, m.d. George Hayward, m.d. J. Mason Warren, m.d. Henry J. Bigelow, m.d. Charles G. Putnam, m.d. Richard H. Dana, Jr., Esq. Alexander H. Vinton, d.d. S. K. Lothrop, D.D. John B. Fitzpatrick, Bishop of Boston. William H. Prescott, Historian. N. Adams, d.d. Hon. Rufus Choate. Charles P. Curtis, Esq. F. C. Loring, Esq. Hon. G. S. Hillard. William Dehon, Esq. Benjamin Peirce, Professor Harvard University. F. D. Huntington, d.d. Henry W. Longfellow, Professor Harvard University. Jared Sparks, President Harvard University. R. B. Forbes, Esq. P. W. Chandler, Esq. Alex. H. Rice, Mayor of Boston. Hon. Robert C. Winthrop. MEMORIAL MEMBERS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SOCIETY. To the Honorable the Senate and DTouse of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled: The undersigned hereby testify to your honorable body, that in their opinion Dr. William T. G. Morton first proved to the world that ether would produce insensibility to the pain of surgical opera- tions, and that it could be used with safety. In their opinion, his fellow-men owe a debt to him for this knowledge. Wherefore they respectfully ask a recognition by Congress of his services to his country and mankind : — John C. Warren, m.d., Senior Surgeon Massachusetts General Hospital, and late President American Medical Society, and Emeritus Professor of Anatomy of Harvard University. George Hayward, m.d., President Massachusetts Medical Society, and Surgeon Massachusetts General Hospital. J. Mason Warren, m.d., Surgeon Massachusetts General Hospital. S. D. TOWNSEND, M.D., " " " S. Parkman, m.d., " " " Henry G. Bicelow, m.d., Surgeon Massachusetts General Hospital, and Professor of Surgery, Harvard University. Henry G. Clark, m.d., Surgeon Massachusetts General Hospital, and City Phy- sician. Jacob Bigelow, m.d., Professor Materia Medica Hai-vard University, and President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Physician to Massachu- setts General Hospital. Oliver W. Holmes, m.d., Professor of Anatomy, Harvard University. Henry I. Bowditch, m.d., Physician Massachusetts General Hospital. D. Humphreys Storer, m.d., " " " M. S. Perry, m.d., " " " James Jackson, m.d., i George C. Shattuck, m.d., I Consulting Physicians and Surgeons Massachusetts John Jeffries, m.d., General Hospital. Edward Reynolds, m.d., J Edward Reynolds, m.d. W. Hooper, m.d. • Massachusetts Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary. George A. Bethune, m.d. John L. Fox, m.d., Surgeon United States Navy, Chelsea Naval Hospital. 36 Members of JIassachusetts Medical Society. Walter Channing, John Homans, President Suffolk District Medical Society. Z. B. Adams, John C. Hayden, John Ware, Ephraim Buck, George Bartlett, Jonas H. Lane, Anson Hooker, Henry Dyer, Augustus A. Gould, Charles Gordon, Joseph S. Jones, Samuel Kneeland, Jr., T. Fletcher Oakes, George Hubbard, Charles W. Moore, Richard H. Salter, Fvtche Edward Oliver, William J. Dale, William Edward Coalo, James W. Stone, P.. W. Newell, Francis A. Willard, William Hawes, Charles Mifflin, J. Wippasne, Abraham A. Watson, Aaron P. Richardson, Henry A. Ward, William Bowen Morris, James B. Gregorson, William W. Morland, M. C. Greene, Horace Stacey, Franklin F. Patch, Samuel L. Abbott, John H. Dix, James Ayejr, Joseph J. Fales, P. Wilbrand, . Ezra Bartlett, S. F. Parcher, James Hyndman, Henry S. Lee, E. D. Cleveland, John Stevens, Ira W. Tobie, J. Everett Herrick, N. C. Stevens, Enock C. Rolfe, Henry Willard, A. Alexander, D. McGowan, Thomas R. Owens, Luther Clark, Charles T. Hoffenvane, Samuel Morrill, Silas Durkee, George Stevens Jones, Jesse Chickering, J. A. Tarbell, | George H. Lvman, Henry W. Williams, J. Randolph Lincoln, George Derby, Wan-en J. Whitney, Francis Minot, D. D. Slade, W. E. Townsend, John B. Alley, George H. Gay, Luther Parks, Jr., William G. Wheeler, F. H. Gray, James F. Harlow, George Russell, Charles E. Ware, E. W. Blake, Edward H. Clark, riamuel Gregg, E. D. Miller, C. G. Putnam, Charles A. Phelps. John Odin, Jr., Joseph Reynolds, George Hay ward, Jr., Henry Osgood Stone, G. Newton Thomson, J. M. Phipps, Abner Phelps, Josiah Curtis, E. D. G. Palmer, Daniel V. Folts, R. L. Hinckley, J. W. Hinckley, M. B. Leonard, P. E. Molloy, Henry Bryant, Charles E. Buckingham, J. W. Warren, Jr., D. D. Smith, George Tower, William Read, J. F. W. Lane, Const. B. O'Donnell, M. R. C. S. E., John S. H. Fogg, Edmund T. Eastman, William S. Coffin, John C. Sharp, Alexander S. Butler, Benjamin B. Appleton, M. Mattson, David Thayer, J. C. Sanborn, E. A. Kittredge. charlestown. E. E. Braun, A. J. Bellows, Benjamin Seabury, George W. Otis, Jr., Charles H. Allen, \. C. Webber, I. P. Aldea, W. W. Wellington, H. L. Chase, Charles F. Foster, A. J. Cummings, Thomas J. Stevens, Hutchinson Germaine, Alexander Poole. James B. Forsyth, John Toomy. WiDiam Ingalls, Physician and Surgeon U. 8. Ma- rine Hospital. A. L. Peirson, William Mack, George Choate, William Henry Prince, J. G. Wood, James Stone, Jr., E. B. Pierson, George C. S. Choate, George A. Perkins, H. Wheatland, Samuel Johnson, Edward A. Holyoke. Alfred Bavlies, H. B. Hutibard, Horace Bowen, Ebenezer Dawes, William Dickinson, Daniel King, George Leonard. NKWBURYPORT. E. Cross, S. M. Gale. A. S. Adams, J. T. Galloupe, Daniel Perley, D. A. Johnson, E. Porter Eastman, James M. Nye, John Renton, Nathaniel Ruggles, Charles M. Weeks, Edward Newhall. WORCESTER, Henry Clarke, Samuel Flagg, George A. Bates, Charles W. Whitcomb, Joseph Sargent, Oramel Martin, William Workman. 37 Members of Massachusetts Medical Society—Continued. Rufus Woodward, Henry Sargent, A. Goulet, P. B. Mignoult, Benjamin Heywood, John E. Hathaway. SPRINGFIELD. James M. Smith, Edwin Seeger, N. Adams, A. S. McClean, Alfred Lambert, C. C. Chaffee, H. A. Hamilton, Henry B. Vaille, D. C. Perkins. PITTSFIELD. NEW BEDFORD. T. S. Mayhew, Johnson Clark, John H. Jennings, William A. Gordon, Elijah Colby, C. D. Sticknev, John Howell Mackie, Paul Spooner. FALL RIVER. James W. Hartly, P. A. Smith, Jerome D welly, Foster Hooper, E. T. Learned. LOWELL. John 0. Green, Henry Whiting, J. P. Jewett, J. D. Pillsbury, Elisha Huntington, John W. Graves, Charles A. Sav y, Joel Spalding, David Wells, Benjamin Skelon, H. Pillsbury, P. P. Campbell, L. B. Morse, Charles A. Davis, Ployer G. Kittredge, Daniel Holt, Daniel Mowe, J. W. Scribner. LAWRENCE. George W. Sanborn, William D. Lamb, David Dana, J. H. Morse. south andover. James Howarth, W. H. Kimball. dedham. Jeremy Stimson, D. P. Wight, H. F. Spear. FITCHBURG. Thos. R. Boutelle, Levi Pillsbury, T. W. Wadsworth, W. M. Barrett, Henry M. Linrad. PLYMOUTH. James L. Hunt, Winslow Warren, Benjamin Hubbard, Timothy Gordon. HINGHAM. Ezra, Stephenson, Robert T. P. Fiske. QUINCY. Ebenezer Woodward, William G. Pattee, W. Goddard. DANVERS. Andrew Nicholls, Joseph Osgood, David A. Grosvenor, George Osgood. marblehead. James C. Briggs, Chandler Flagg, Daniel Gill. BEVERLY. W. C. Boyden, Charles Haddock, Lagalls Kittredge. GLOUCESTER. Isaac P. Smith, C. H. Hildreth, George W. Smith. ROCKPORT. Benjamin Haskell, Lemuel Gott, Oscar D. Abbott. NEWTON. Henry Bigelow, Cyrus K. Bartlet. FEAMINGHAM. Simon Whitney, Allston W. Whitney. MILFORD. Francis Leland, Theodore 0. Cornish. H. H. Childs, President of Berkshire Medical Insti- tution. N. S. Barnes, 0. S. Root, Frank A. Cady, 0. E. Brewster, Nathaniel Foote, Avery Williams, A. N. Allen, L. F. Humeston, Willard Clough. Clark F. Hall, N. J. Wilson. APPENDIX C. HISTORICAL STATEMENT. The foregoing pages set forth in outline the fact that there is a very general movement among the American people, inaugurated by leading members of the profession in Boston, New York, and Phil- adelphia, in behalf of one of the most praiseworthy objects which can appeal to patrons of science or the friends of humanity. They show that the noble work is at last undertaken, which for more than twelve years has been neglected by Congress, to preserve the shelter of a home for the family of a nation's benefactor, still living, from the clamorous creditors to whom it was pledged for debts in- curred in making and promulgating a discovery which, though leaving the discoverer poor, has made the whole world his debtor, and to place their future life beyond the chances and vicissitudes of fortune, by the purchase of an annuity. The discovery made by Dr. Wm. T. G. Morton, of Boston, of the anaesthetic properties of sulphuric ether, and the safety, cer- tainty, and reliability of its effects in making the severest surgical operations, childbirth, and other scenes and conditions of physical suffering, perfectly painless, is a discovery already ranked by the medical profession above that of vaccination by Jenner, to whom the English Parliament voted large sums of money, and for whom national testimonials were raised and medals struck in other na- tions ; a discovery whose benefits are not confined to the subjuga- tion of pain, but which are continually unfolding in new depart- ments of the healing art. This national movement was with great propriety inaugurated in Boston, the city where the discoverer lived and practised his pro- fession, and where the first successful painless surgical operation was performed. An organization to raise a national testimonial fund in his behalf, with trustees residing in Boston, and treasurers in the principal cities in the United States, is already established. Though it has hardly passed beyond its inchoate period, it has en- listed the energetic co-operation of some of the most eminent and 39 patriotic persons in the Union. All will learn with surprise that two hundred thousand dollars will not more than reimburse the discoverer of this anaesthetic agent for his outlays in making ex- periments which led to the discovery, in establishing its value, in compelling its acceptance by the world in spite of incredulity and indifference, in establishing the priority of his claims over post facto discoverers, and in applications to Congress to induce them to re- imburse him for his actual expenditures.* A handsome beginning for the collection of this sum has already been made, though much remains to be done. The fund has received, as was most fitting, from the medical institutions of Bos- ton and vicinity, and from eminent and wealthy persons residing in that seat of literature and science, munificent subscriptions. New York, too, represented in the same way by her medical in- stitutions and her wealthy citizens, has shown an equal prompti- tude in discharging this debt of honor, too long owing to a nation's benefactor. Such is a brief and general statement of the objects to be accom- plished, and the present state of the enterprise. It is not necessary to argue at any great length for the character or success of this undertaking. That would be almost an insult to the long list of men distinguished in all the professions, and honorably known in commerce or in the more secluded walks of private life, who now appeal to the public at large to do justice in this matter. To doubt its success, would be to challenge the sin- cerity of the great bulk of the medical profession in Massachusetts, New York, and Philadelphia, who ask subscriptions to this fund; would be to say that the world has gone back in the present cen- tury, and that the justice given to Jenner, who conquered small- pox in the last century, would be denied to Morton, who may be said to have conquered pain in this. It may not be out of place, however, to recall here the universal thrill of joy that was felt when it was first announced to the world how the subtle spirit of ether would almost everywhere subdue pain, in the severest surgical operations, in the pangs of parturition, in the numberless cases at the hospitals, on battle-fields in time of war, in cottages " in piping times of peace," removing, as has been well said, " half the primal curse," and more than justifying the unstinted praise of the foregoing appeal of the medical profession in New York, which says : — * Vide p. 449, "Trials of a Public Benefactor," by N. P. Rice. J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia. 40 " In view of these advantages from the use of anaesthetics, we feel that Dr. Morton — the first to demonstrate their safety and efficiency, and to establish them in general practice — has conferred a boon upon humanity as unperishable as it is important, and one of such a character as to entitle him to rank among the benefac- tors of mankind." Neither is this the place or time to set forth as they deserve the labors and the sufferings which Dr. Morton has undergone in the twelve years which have succeeded his great discovery. The story of his wrongs, his patience, his perseverance, his unconquerable energy, his poverty, his enthusiasm, his success in achieving an im- perishable honor, and his failure in obtaining the slightest emolu- ment for an invaluable discovery, which the world now freely and • daily uses, has more than the interest of a romance.* They con- stitute a record which, except it is ended by the success of the movement whose inauguration has been set forth in the foregoing pages, will stand a burning disgrace and scandal to the profession and the world which have appropriated and used a discovery, and left the discoverer to starve. Shall it be said that, through his connection with so great a benefaction to the human race, Dr. Morton is to be left unable to preserve to his children the paternal acres pledged in securing it, unable to educate his children, with- out any adequate means of support, and, worse than all, unable to secure for himself that quiet mode of life demanded by the ruined health consequent upon his hazardous experiments, and upon living in an atmosphere of ether for so many months, and upon the labors and sufferings which he underwent in detecting and establishing the anaesthetic properties of the sulphuric ether ? These appel- lants, therefore, now appeal directly to the heart of the country, which rarely foils to disprove the heartless maxim that " republics are ungrateful," and which will never suffer a state of things so discreditable as that which we have briefly depicted, long to last. It is true that this mode of raising funds to consummate a simple act of justice is laborious and tedious. The present success of the movement shows, however, that that is the only great objection, and that individuals and institutions, and the country at large, are ready and anxious to discharge their obligations. The " ether con- troversy " has had the one good effect of waking up the public to the existence of those obligations. The sum required to accom- plish the reimbursement and effect the designs of the appellants, * See " Trials of a Public Benefactor." 41 is, as we have said, a large one, and its collection by individual contributions, over an extent of country so vast as ours, is one of time; but it will derive an additional value as coming directly from the people, and the zeal and energy with which it has been entered upon by the profession in this city and elsewhere is the best augury of success. May it soon bs impossible for one of the greatest benefactors of the human race who has appeared in this century to say, " It were better for me, infinitely better for me and my wife and children, better for me and them in all respects, if I had buried the secret of the victory over pain in my breast for- ever, and suffered centuries to elapse before it came forth to the knowledge of the world by some other hand, than to do as I did, — hasten to make it known by all forms and modes of speech, and at every risk of health, property, and even life." [From the American Cyclopaedia, Yol. XI.] MORTON, William Thomas Green, M. D., an American den- tist, one of the claimants of the discovery of anaesthetics, born in Charlton, Mass., Aug. 9, 1819. His youth was passed upon his father's farm. Going to Boston at the age of 17, he spent some months in a large publishing house, and from this time to his ma- jority, he alternated between the counter and the school-room. With no taste and little talent for trade, his mercantile career was short and disastrous. In 1840 he commenced the study of den- tistry in Baltimoi'e, and eighteen months afterward established himself as a dentist in Boston. Among other improvements intro- duced by him was a new kiri% of solder, by which false teeth are fastened to gold plates, preventing galvanic action. In order to render his work complete, it was desirable that the roots of old teeth should be removed; as this was a tedious and very painful operation, few would submit to it, and there seemed but little prospect of the success of the invention unless he could devise means to lessen the pain. He tried stimulants, even to intoxica- tion, opium, and magnetism, but in vain; still, the idea possessed his mind that there must be something to produce the desired effect, and he gave himself up seriously to its realization. His lim- ited amount of medical knowledge interfering with the prosecution of his investigations, he entered his name as a medical student in Boston in 1844. About this time the idea was suggested to him in a lecture at the college that sulphuric ether might be used to 42 alleviate pain in his operations ; he read such books on chemistry as he could procure, and experimented on animals, but as yet with little success. During his attendance at the Medical College and hospital he was obliged to devote all his spare time to his operat- ing rooms and dental laboratory, where he displayed great inge- nuity in the mechanical details of his profession, and especially in the manufacture of artificial teeth, which he prosecuted successfully on a large scale. From books and from lectures he learned that sulphuric ether could be inhaled in small quantities with some dis- comfort, but that in large amount it was dangerous. After exper- iments on himself, and satisfied of its safety, he administered it to a man on Sept. 30, 1846, producing unconsciousness, during which a firmly rooted bicuspid tooth was painlessly extracted. After numerous other successful experiments, he communicated their result to Dr. J. C. Warren, and at his request administered the ether, at the Massachusetts General Hospital, to a man from whose jaw was removed a vascular tumor on Oct. 16, 1846, the patient remaining unconscious during the operation. From this dates the introduction into general surgery of the discovery of ethereal anaesthesia. Like all other great discoveries, however, it met with the bitterest professional opposition ; the jealousy of dentists, the fears of physicians, and the scruples of theologians were in many cases arrayed against it, and various persons claimed to have sug- gested it. In order to protect himself against such opposition, to secure a fair compensation for his expenditure of time and money, and to keep his discovery within the hands of competent persons, Dr. Morton obtained for it a patent,%nder the name of " letheon," in Nov. 1846, in the United States, and in the following month in England, offering, however, free rights to all charitable institutions in all parts of the country. Notwithstanding his generous offers, government appropriated his discovery to its use without compen- sation. Upon their first examination of the testimony, some of the Paris academicians at first recognized Dr. Jackson as the discov- erer ; but the committee of the academy awarded the Monthyon prize of 5,000 francs to be equally divided between him and Dr. Morton. The latter declined to receive this joint award, pro- tested against the decision of the academy, and in 1852 received the large gold medal, the Monthyon prize in medicine and surgery. He underwent an amount of persecution almost unparalleled in the annals of personal enmity, in private and before Congress, his 43 business was broken up, and his very house attached by the sheriff for debts ; but his indomitable will and the encouragement of firm and powerful friends enabled him ever to maintain his claims to the discovery. Relying upon the impartiality and generosity of Congress for remuneration of his labors, he had presented his first memorial in Dec. 1846, upon which the appointed committee did not report. Strengthened by the testimonial inaugurated by the trustees of the Massachusetts General Hospital in 1848, which conceded to him the discovery of the power and safety of ether in producing anaesthesia, he made a second application to Congress in January, 1849; a committee, composed entirely of physicians, heard the evidence on both sides, and reported that he was enti- tled to the merit of the discovery; but on account of the press of business towards the close of the session, and on the eve of a change in the administration, they deemed it unadvisable to recom- mend any pecuniary remuneration. Returning from Washington, he made a brief stay at Baltimore, where he received the regular title of M. D. from Washington University. In December, 1851, he made a third and last appeal to Congress, and his memorial was referred to a select committee; the report of the majority, after a most elaborate investigation, awarded the honor of the discovery to Dr. Morton, and in April, 1852, the majority reported a bill ap- propriating $100,000 as a national testimonial for his discovery, on the condition that he should surrender his patent to the Govern- ment. This bill, on account of the excitement attending the then approaching presidential election, was not acted upon, though warmly approved by several members of the Cabinet, and urged by members of Congress ; having at last been brought before the Senate, as an amendment to the army appropriation bill, it was adopted. In 1853, an amendment to the appropriation bill was offered, granting $100,000 to the discoverer of practical anaesthe- sia ; after a warm debate, it passed the Senate, 26 to 23, but failed in the House. In 1854, a similar bill was presented by Mr. Everett, which passed the Senate by 24 to 13, but was lost in the House. Thus ended a struggle of eight years spent in vindicating his claims. In 1854 Dr. Morton attempted to obtain from the execu- tive a recognition of the validity of his patent, supported by the recommendation of 150 members of Congress that the right to use his discovery be purchased for the public service, or that the Gov- ernment respect its own patent, and discontinue its use. After 44 two years' delay, the President informed him that whenever it was decided in the courts that the Government had violated his patent, it would pay. At this defeat his creditors became importunate, and reduced him and his family to utter poverty; but in the win- ter of 1856-7 a plan for a national testimonial was instituted in Boston, encouraged by many of the principal physicians and mer- chants of that city. In their appeal they give to him the credit of presenting to the world the fact that a safe insensibility can be produced by etheric vapors in the following words: " Nearly the whole of the medical profession of this city, in the midst of whom the discovery was made, together with other bodies of competent persons who have investigated its origin, have, after careful scru- tiny, concurred in assigning this merit to Dr. Morton, and public opinion has long since affirmed their verdict." In 1858 a similar appeal was made in New York, signed by the principal medical men of that city, from which the following is an extract: " For this discovery the world is indebted to Dr. William T. G. Morton, of Boston. Whatever may have been the steps preliminary to this remarkable discovery, Dr. Morton's claim to it is established be- yond all controversy, and his merit in this respect, with those who have taken the trouble to inform themselves on the subject, can be no longer a question of dispute." In I860 the medical profession of Philadelphia signed a testimonial of the same character, which says: " We believe the practical originator of anaesthetic inhalation to be Dr. William T. G. Morton, of Boston, Mass. We are con- vinced that he is the one who first resorted to ethereal inhalation for the purpose of producing insensibility to pain in a patient while undergoing a surgical operation, and that he is the one*who first succeeded in effecting this result. He was, indisputably, the first to urge the anaesthetic properties of the vapor of ether upon the attention of the medical profession, and thus succeeded in estab- lishing the practice of anaesthetic inhalation." In 1858, to save his home from the sheriff's sale for debt, he instituted a suit against a marine hospital surgeon for infringing his patent, as suggested by the President, which was decided in his favor in the U. S. Circuit Court. — See " Trials of a Public Benefactor," by Dr. Nathan P. Rice, (New York, 1859.) APPENDIX D. PROCEEDINGS OF HOSPITALS. MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL. The undersigneo; to whom a proposition of the Trustees of this Hospital should contribute a fund to be established for the benefit of Dr. Morton, was referred, report: — That Dr. Morton is known to have been chiefly instrumental in conferring a great good upon his race; That his agency in a discovery which has already relieved mul- titudes from suffering, has yielded to him no pecuniary compen- sation for its acknowledged benefits, but has, on the contrary, been attended by many sacrifices; That his only rewards have been the consciousness of a great service rendered, and a title to fame; That the government of the country has omitted to provide a proper reward; That justice entitles him to remuneration, and that the only mode in which it seems to be probable that the means of doing that justice can be furnished is through voluntary contributions from the philanthropic, in some such form as is now suggested. Therefore, your Committee think that the object is proper, and that its early attainment is to be desired; so that the only question is whether the trustees may properly contribute of the funds of this institution for its promotion. No ordinary circumstance would justify the trustees, should they apply any portion of the funds under their control to any object other than the direct relief of the sick under their care. But the relations between Dr. Morton and this Hospital, in regard to the great discovery which prompts the proposed memor- ial, are peculiar. The- first important surgical operation to which that discovery was applied, was performed within its walls, at his instance. At a time when he supposed that his agency in it would be pecuniarily rewarded by those who should derive benefits from it, 46 he conferred upon this Hospital the right to profit by it in all cases without any charge. We have been and shall continue to be benefited by it, to an extent which no reasonable amount of money could compensate for. Dr. Morton and his friends think that the refusal of the trustees of the Massachusetts General Hospital to subscribe to the contem- plated fund would prevent its foundation. In view of all the cir- cumstances, your Committee think that apprehension well founded. When individuals have made bequests, or rendered remarkable services to the institution, the trustees have deemed it proper to expend such sums as may have been required to procure appro- priate memorials of them, to be preserved within the walls of the Hospital; and your Committee think that the jn-opriety of a sub- scription toward the fund which it is now proposed to establish for the benefit of Dr. Morton, would rest safely on the grounds which have been found sufficient in such cases. They therefore recommend that the subjoined vote be passed. J. Thomas Stevenson,) John Lowell, j Committee. Boston, Feb. 22, 1857. Voted, that the Chairman of this Board be requested to sub- scribe, on behalf of the Massachusetts General Hospital, one thou- sand dollars toward the fund which it is proposed to establish for the benefit of Dr. W. T. G. Morton, as a memorial of the great service which that gentleman has rendered to science and to humanity, in connection with the discovery of the uses of ether. Trustees—Henry B. Rogers, John P. Bigelow, James B. Bradlee, William S. Bullard, William J. Dale, William W. Greenough, Thomas Lamb, John Lowell, Robert M. Mason, Charles H. Mills, J. Thomas Stevenson, Edward Wigglesworth, MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY. Voted, that the Secretary of this Board be authorized to sub- scribe, on behalf of the Massachusetts Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary, two hundred dollars toward the fund to be raised for the benefit of Dr. W. T. G. Morton, as a recognition of the greatest discovery of modern times, and an acknowledgment of the great service Avhich that gentleman has rendered to science and human- ity by the discovery-of the uses of ether. Trustees—J. H. Walcott, J. W. Edmands, Henry Rice, Dr. E. Reynolds, G. H. Shaw, C. H. Mills, 1J. W. Hooper, Moses Grant, James Lawrence, Dr. S. D. Townsend, J. A. Blanchafd. Theodore Feothingham, Secretary. 47 NEW YORK HOSPITAL. "George T. Trimble, Esq., President of the Board of Governors of the New York Hospital. Sir: The members of the medical profession of New York have made an appeal in behalf of Dr. Wm. T. G. Morton, of Boston, who was the first to dis- cover and demonstrate by experiment the power of sulphuric ether to render the human econqmy insensible to pain under surgical operations. " Tho object of this appeal is to raise, by voluntary contributions, a fund, as a national testimonial for his benefit, such as shall be a worthy acknowledgment of the priceless value of a discovery which has already done and is constantly doing so much to diminish human suffering. " Boston, the scene of Dr. Morton's labors, has taken the initiation in this effort, and has made a noble beginning. " It is believed that the action of the New York Hospital in reference to this appeal, will exert an important influence on other kindred institutions in this city and elsewhere, and it is therefore earnestly hoped that the object will be regarded with favor by the Board of Governors. Nowhere in our whole land are the benefits of this discovery more constantly witnessed than in the New York Hospital, and there seems to be special propriety in such an institution acting a conspicuous part in acknowledging our common indebtedness to the discoverer of such a boon to suffering humanity. " Having been delegated to present this object to your Board, I beg leave, Mr. President, through you, to submit this communication with the accompanying appeal, to that honorable body for consideration at their next meeting. " I have the honor to remain, very respectfully, your obedient servant, "Gordon Buck, m.d. "New York, July 3, 1853." The subject being thus fairly laid before the custodians of the institutions of New York, the Society of the New York Hospital, a close corporation, governed by the gentlemen named in the note appended,* immediately vofed that their President, Hon. George T. Trimble, subscribe five hundred dollars to the proposed fund. COMMISSIONERS OF EMIGRATION, OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. The Commissioners of Emigration, composed of the gentlemen named in the annexed note,f passed the following resolution : — '■'■Resolved, that in view of the great benefits derived by the In- stitutions and patients under the charge of the Commissioners of Emigration, by the use of sulphuric ether, the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars to be donated to Dr. Wm. T. G. Morton, the dis- coverer thereof, as a consideration of the feeling of the Board, with an expression of regret that the present state of the funds under their charge would not permit the Commissioners to show a more substantial appreciation of the great importance of the dis- covery." * George T. Trimble, Najah Taylor. Gulian C Verplanck, James F. De Peyster, John A. Stevens. James I. Jones, Stacy B. Collins, George F. Hussey, Edwin D. Morgan,^ David Colden Murray, Robert Lenox Kennedy, John David Wolfe, George F. Jones, Joseph Walker Thomas Hall Faile, Thomas B. Stillman, James N. Cobb, George T. Olyphant, John C.' Greeu, David Clarkson, Abram S. Hewitt, Frederick A. Conkling, Nathaniel P. Bailev Otis D. Swan, Henry L. Pierson, James W. Beekman. tGulian C. Verplanck, Prest.; E. Crabtree, Vice-Prest.; B. Casserly, Sec'y; F. D. Mor- ean Wilson G. Hunt, Elijah F. Purdy, John P. Cumming, Cyrus Curtis, Mayor of New York, Mayor of Brooklyn, President of the German Society, President of the Insh Emi- grant Society. 48 BELLEVUE HOSPITAL. The Governors of the Almshouse referred the subject to the Committee on Bellevue Hospital to report. While considering the subject, the Committee received from Stephen Smith, m.d., Sec- retary, the following resolution, unanimously adopted by the Medical Board of Bellevue Hospital: — Resolved, that the Medical Board of Bellevue Hospital cheer- fully express their conviction that to the zeal, perseverance, and skill of Dr. Wm. T. Green Morton, of Boston, in using sulphuric ether to render persons insensible to pain, the world is indebted for the present extended and beneficial use of anaesthetic agents in the practice of medicine and surgery; and they are convinced that but for his energy, courage, and success, there is no reason to believe that mankind would yet have received that boon from any of the gentlemen whose names have been prominently connected with this subject. John W. Francis, m.d., President Medical Board. Stephen Smith, m.d., Secretary. Referred to Committee on Bellevue Hospital. . On the fourth of August, the Committee to whom the subject was referred, reported in favor of appropriating the sum of $1,500. On September 14, the following preamble and resolution, appro- priating fifteen hundred dollars, was adopted: — Resolved, that this Board view with high appreciation the initi- atory steps taken by the Medical Faculty of the cities of Boston and New York to acknowledge, in a substantial manner, the dis- covery and appliances of sulphuric ether by Dr. Wm. T. G. Morton, and believing the same to be, as expressed and set forth in their testimonials, the greatest benefit of the present age rendered to science and humanity, deem it our duty, in consideration thereof, and of the many uses to which the same has been applied in the institutions under our charge, to unqualifiedly indorse the same. And be it further Resolved, that the sum of fifteen hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated as compensation for the use of sulphuric ether in the hospital under our charge, and the same be taken from the unexpended appropriation of Belle- vue Hospital. The President of the Board of Ten Governors immediately made the subscription to the proposed fund. APPENDIX E. CORRESPONDENCE. During the last summer, the Governor of Massachusetts, N. P. Banks, late Speaker of the House of Representatives, wrote to his Excellency the Governor of New York, that " A national subscrip- tion, intended as an acknowledgment of his [Dr. Morton's] great public service in the discovery, and introduction to common use, of this .important power [sulphuric ether], has been commenced here, under the auspices of gentlemen of the highest professional standing, who were themselves witnesses of the successive steps through which this discovery was made. They are men whose names alone are a guarantee that their statements may be relied upon, and no words of mine can aid in giving their opinion strength. In addition to that of merchants and professional men of the first eminence, you will find in the publication made by the trustees of the fund to be raised, a petition to the President, signed by a majority of the members of the thirty-third Congress, which is, I think, to be regarded as an evidence of the very general esti- mate which was made of the claims of Dr. Morton upon the government and the public. " The subscription has been liberally commenced in Boston, but it is thought that other cities that have been benefited by the dis- covery should participate in the recognition of the merits of the discoverer, and in making him appropriate honors. I hope that other cities may imitate the example of Boston in this respect, and contribute something to aid, and, I may say, relieve one who is certainly deserving of great credit, and who has as yet received no advantage from his discovery." Dr. James Jackson wrote to George Ripley, one of the editors of the American Cyclopedia: "To him [Dr. Morton] the world owes at least the introduction for useful purposes of sulphuric ether, by employment of which by inhalation, he proved that in- 50 sensibility might be produced m a human subject with safety, and be maintained during powerful surgical operations. It is now more than eleven years since he made this discovery knoAvn. At the present day the benefit of it is known throughout the civilized portion of the world. Every day, the persons who use the article must be counted by thousands. If the knowledge of it could be lost millions and millions of dollars could be raised for the recov- ery of it. Every man is liable to the misfortunes Avhich would make the use of it invaluable to him. "Is not something due to the gentleman who introduced the use of ether for the use of the present and all future generations of men ? Shall it be recorded in history, that he lived on a very small income, while millions were blessing his discovery ? Should he not be repaid in some substantial manner ? As I understand the matter, his business has been destroyed, strange to say, and he needs aid. May I ask you to make his case known -in NeAV York, in the hope that he may receive the evidence of such grati- tude as is due to him ? " Dr. Jacob Bigelow, President of the Academy of Arts and Sciences, Avrote to Dr. Parker, that " I hope the community who are daily deriving the benefit of his [Dr. Morton's] inestimable discovery, will not be insensible to the debt they owe him. He is the only man without Avhom the world would at this day have wanted the blessing of anaesthetic inhalation." Dr. O. W. Holmes wrote to Willard Parker, M. D.: " It gives me great pleasure to add my name to that of my friends, who have recommended the claims of Dr. W. T. G. Morton to your favorable notice. " A surgeon in great business, like yourself, must know well what we owe to the discoverer of the use of ether in surgery. The part Dr. Morton took in that is matter of history, and I cannot but think you will agree with us in believing that but for his happy audacity we should have waited an indefinite period for the dis- covery. " I Avrite this time, therefore, to request your kind consideration of the subject that will be presented to your notice, not professing to have any personal claim upon your valuable time, but consider- ing that your position entitles you to the honor of being among the foremost in every movement involving the interest of science and humanity." 51 Dr. John Jeffries, wrote to Willard Parker, M. D.: " Of the jus- tice to his [Dr. Morton's] claim, as the person by whom this great benefaction was conferred on the medical profession, and upon mankind, I entertain no doubt; and consequently of the weight of obligations which physicians and societies at large are under to him for this benefit. A public benefaction has been set on foot for Dr. Morton, who is himself poor, and made so, in some measure, in consequence of his agency in providing a blessing for mankind. It has my full approbation and best wishes for its success. I would also express my confidence in the plan and details by which it was carried out, arising from the high character for intelligence and integrity of gentlemen under whose auspices it is to be conducted. Whatever you may please to do to aid, will be on the side of jus- tice and humanity." Dr. S. D. Townsend, one of the surgeons of Massachusetts Gen- eral Hospital, wrote to Willard Parker, m.d. : " Having been con- versant with the use of ether from the first day of its introduction, I have always given to Dr. Morton the credit of being the author of its extensive employment into our profession. The object of this movement is to obtain subscriptions to a fund, to be placed in the hands of trustees, for his [Dr. Morton's] benefit, which is to be raised from different hospitals in the country, that have been so greatly benefited by its use. Dr. Morton's pecuniary circumstances have been greatly reduced by the exclusive attentions he has paid to this object, having entirely broken up the business which he was extensively engaged in; and he needs the aid of all professional men, who have been so greatly benefited by this discovery. I am sure I can rely upon you to give it all the assistance which your prominent situation can afford him." Nathaniel I. Bowditch, Esq., in a letter to Amos A. Lawrence and John Lowell, Trustees of the Morton Fund, says: " Circum- stances, as you are aware, made me originally take great interest in the ether discovery. In the Hospital Report and a pamphlet in vindication of it, I have expressed, as forcibly as in my power, my conviction that it is to the boldness, energy, and perseverance of Dr. Morton that the world owes the demonstration of this great truth of science. I have never seen the slightest reason for doubt- ing the accuracy of the conclusion at which I first arrived. It 52 happens that in my own person I have already had occasion to be especially thankful for this blessing. Ether has been administered to me no less than seven times, and on each occasion has saved me from great suffering. I consider Dr. Morton, indeed, to be one of my permanent attendant physicians, and one the value of whose prescription cannot be estimated in money, or expressed in words. I have therefore cheerfully subscribed $500 on the book which you sent me." Thomas B. Curtis, Esq., of Boston, in a letter to William E. Bowen, Esq., of Philadelphia: "Dr. Morton first made known to the world the blessed effects of ether in doing away with pain. Instead of riches and honor, he has reaped nothing from his great discovery. Our Government has cheated him, but they have not deprived him of the support of the most eminent surgeons in America, and the sympathy of many of our best citizens." Dr. Wm. II. Van Buren, of the New York Hospital, in a letter to Prof. Neill, of Philadelphia: " Here, there was no dissenting voice in the right quarter, that is, among the profession, — and I think on the broad ground of humanity, Dr. Morton has a right to our support. His misfortunes entitle him to our regard above all other considerations." Dr. Fordyce Barker, of the Bellevue Hospital, New York, in a letter to Dr. Edward Hartshorne, of Philadelphia: " The profession in this city and in Boston have with great unanimity made an effort to induce the people to bestow upon Dr. Morton some reward proportioned to the value of his discovery, and it is hoped that our brethren in Philadelphia will join heartily in the endeavor." Dr. George T. Eliot, of the Bellevue Hospital, New York, in a letter to Dr. Biddle, of Philadelphia: " I sincerely think that Dr. Morton ought to be placed above the neeessity for labor during his life, and that it is a reproach to the United States that the Govern- ment did not behave differently. The feeling of the profession here is in favor of the testimonial in his behalf." Dr. Batcheldor, President of the Academy of Medicine, New York, in a letter to Prof. Meigs, of Philadelphia: "Dr. Wm. T. G. Morton, the discoverer of Anaesthesia, now so universally em- 53 ployed in the alleviation of human suffering, in perfecting his discovery and in introducing it to the world, has made great sacri- fices, and it is no more than just that he should reap some reward, small though it may be, in comparison to the vast benefits which he has conferred upon suffering humanity. The appeal to the jus- tice and liberality of our fellow-citizens has been gladly seconded by the profession in this city, and I have no doubt that such will be the case in your city." Dr. John H. Griscom, of the New York Hospital, in a letter to Prof. George B. Wood, of Philadelphia : " The medical profession of Boston and in New York have taken great interest in the effort now in progress to obtain from the people a testimonial of a sub- stantial character in fa\'or of Dr. Morton, whose sacrifices, means, time, and health in his devotion to the perfecting of this most extraordinary discovery, render some pecuniary return essential. We regard this as a truly national matter, to which the profession of the whole country should lend their aid." Dr. Isaac Wood, of the Bellevue Hospital, New York, in a let- ter to Prof. George B. Wood, of Philadelphia: " At a meeting of our Medical Board, held last evening at my house, a resolution Avas unanimously passed, to recommend the testimonial to Dr. Morton to the favorable notice of the Board of ten Governors of the Bellevue Hospital." Prof. Valentine Mott, of New York, in a letter to Prof. Pan- coast, of Philadelphia: " The Profession here generally award to Dr. Morton the honor of this great discovery. We have been doing, for the Testimonial to him, a little in this city." Dr. John W. Francis, of New York, in a letter to Prof. Samuel Jackson, of Philadelphia: " Something, our entire Faculty have determined, must be done for Dr. Morton as a great benefactor to • humanity. In New York we are not idle. Our Bellevue Hos- pital, I believe, will make a liberal donation." Dr. F. M. Markoe, of the New York Hospital, in a letter to Dr. Franklin Bache, of Philadelphia: " We have been much inter- ested in the matter of the Testimonial to" Dr. Morton, and feel the conviction that not only he is entitled to the credit of the discov- 54 ery of this great practical use of ether, but that the country owe him a debt of gratitude which ought to take some tangible and available form." Prof. Alfred C. Post, of New York, in a letter to Prof. S. D. Gross, of Philadelphia: " I hope the Profession, of your city, will take an interest in obtaining from the community some substantial acknowledgment of the great services which Dr. Morton has ren- dered to science and humanity. " I think, from the investigations which I have made, that there is no reason to doubt that he is entitled to'the exclusive merit of introducing the valuable discovery which he claims to have made, and that the efforts which haAre been made by others to deprive him of his claim have been characterized by gross injustice." Dr. B. W. McCready, of the Bellevue Hospital, New York, in a letter to Dr. W. II. Gobrecht, of Philadelphia: "It has been deemed just, by the leading medical men of Boston and New York, that Dr. Morton should realize something more from his dis- covery than barren honors, to which he has to support his claims at his OAvn expense." Prof. Willard Parker, of New York, in a letter to Mr. Allsop: "Dr. Morton has laid the civilized world under an infinite obb>a- tion, and exhausted his means by so doing. I am desirous that some return should be made, and he be relieved from his condition of want. In this city a movement is being made in furtherance of this object." Dr. John Watson, of the New York Hospital, in a letter to John A. Stevens, Esq.: " As our national government is not likely to remunerate Dr. Morton for the trouble and expense, not to speak of loss of business, to which he has been subjected, American people should take his sacrifices into serious consideration, and show by their OAvn liberality that what the Government cannot do, the people are not willing to leave undone." SUBSCRIPTIONS THAT HEAD THE BOSTON AND NEW YORK CONTRIBUTIONS. Board of Ten Governors for the City of New York...............$1,500 Massachusetts General Hospital.................................. 1,000 Amos A. Lawrence.........................,.................. 1,000 John P. Cushing............................................... 500 The Society of the New York Hospital........................... 500 The Commissioners of Emigration of the State of New York......... 250 James Brown.............................................. 500 John David Wolf............................................. 250 Peter Lorillard.............................................. 250 James Lenox................................................. 250 Benjamin L. Swan........................................... 100 George T. Trimble............................................ 100 Robert B. Minturn............................................ 100 John C. Green................................................ 100 Joseph Sampson............................................. 100 James Donaldson.............................................. 100 Henry Chauncey.............................................. 100 Charles A. Davis.............................................. 100 James Boorman............................................... 100 George Griswold...................'........................... 100 Morris Ketchum............................................. 150 Robert Ray.................................................. 100 E. D. Morgan & Co............................................ 100 Josiah Macy & Sons........................................... 100 Jonathan Thorn.............................................. 100 John Gardner................................................ 200 Massachusetts Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary................... 200 Thomas B. Curtis............................................. 100 Nathaniel I. Bowditch.......................................... 100 Charles II. Mills............................................... 100 John J. May.................................................. 100 David Sears.................................................. 100 Edward Wigglesworth......................................... 100 James Bowden Bradlee........................................ 100 56 Josiah Bradlee................................................ 100 James Lawrence.............................................. 100 John A. Lowell............................................... 100 Thomas Lee.................................................. 100 J. M. Forbes.................................................. 100 Benjamin H. Field............................................ 100 Charles C. Goodhue...............................: .......... 100 S. L. Snarez................................................. 100 William E. Wilmarding........................................ 100 Lorillard Spencer............................................. 100 Catharine L. Spencer.......................................... 100 Augustus Belmont..........:.................................. 100 Armstrong & Son............................................. 100 John Bridge.................................................. 100 B. M. Whitlock............................................... 100 William B. Astor.............................................. 100 Charles H. Marshall........................................... 100 H. B. Claflin......:.......................................... 100 J. B. & W. W. Connel......................................... 100 FORM OP PETITION SENT TO THE CROWNED HEADS OP EUROPE. Boston, (Massachusetts,) Etats-Unis d'Amdrique, 1861. Petition it enfaveur de Monsieur le Docteur Morton, auteur de la ddcouverte de VEtherisation. Le Soussignd.autorisd acet effet par un corps deMddecins Amdricains,arespectueuse- ment l'honneur de soumettre a votre Majesty, la demande du Docteur William T. G. Morton, de Boston, pour des certiflcats de ses semblables, a regard de l'introduction de 1'Etherisation, et d'implorer en sa faveur votre favorable attention. Dans I'opinion presque unanime de la profession Mddicale en Amerique, aussi bien que de notre Gouvernement National et des institutions competentes, le Docteur Mor- ton a dtdle premier a faire la ddcouverte ou a ddmontrer le grand fait physiologique, que le systeme humain est capable d'etre placd surement dans une condition dans la quelle il devient insensible a la douleur, et il a prouvd la possibility et la suretd de 1'Etherisation, qui conduisit immediatement a l'usage du Chloroforme et d'autres agents Anaesthetics, pour le soulagement des souffrances humaines. Des milliers de sujets de votre Majeste, dans la vie privde, ont dtd sauvds des douleurs accidentelles des maladies variees auxquelles notre race est sujette; des milliers de vos soldats, sur les champs de bataille, ont dtd insensibles aux tortures des blessures faites par les coups de feu et aux operations chirurgicales par l'influence bienfaisante de I'Ether et du Chloroforme ; mais le Docteur Morton lui-meme a dtd apauvri par le reel emploi qu'il a fait, en conferant ce grand bienfait au genre humain. Nous suggtrons que quelque temoignagc des Gouvernements et des Peuples, de la juste appreciation de la valeur des services de ce bienfaiteur de ses semblables, est sim- plement un acte de justice. Votre Majeste" est universellement rdvdrde sur cette terre sympathique, pour le rare exemple que vous prdsentez au monde, par l'union des plus hauts et des plus saints pouvoirs que puisse tenir un humain,—ceux de souverain avee ceux de Pere, et noua sommes enhardis a espdrer que vous pourrez Stre induit a prendre ce sujet sous votre favorable consideration. president: Dr. James Jackson, Professeur Emdrite de Thdorie et de Pratique de Medicine a l'Universite" d'Harvard. VICE-PRESIDENTS: Dr. Jacob Bigelow, President de 1'Acaddmie Amdricaine des Arts et Sciences; Dr. George Hayward, Chirurgien Consultant de l'Hopital General du Massachusetts; Dr. S. D. Townsend, Chirurgien a l'Hopital Gdndral du Massachusetts; Dr. Edward Reynolds, Chirurgien Consultant de l'H6pital Gdndral du Massachusetts ; C. C. Ful- ton ll d., President de l'Universitd d'Harvard; Dr. John Homans, President de la Societe Medicale du Mass. Medecin Consultant de l'HOpital Gdndral du Mass.; Dr. John Jiffiues, Chirurgien Consultant de l'Hopital Gdndral du Massachusetts; Jaked Sparks, ll.d., Aneien Prdsident de l'Universitd d'Harvard; Robert C. Winthrop, ll.d., President de la Socidte Historique du Massachusetts. COMITE GENERAL: Dr John C Dalton ; Daniel Treadwell, Autrefois Professeur a l'Universitd d'Harvard; Dr. Charles G. Putnam; Dr. Daniel D. Slade; Dr. Henry I. Bow- ditch Mddecin a l'HOpital Gdndral du Massachusetts; Dr. Henry G. Clark, Chirur- gien a l'Hopital Gdndral du Massachusetts ; Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Professeur d'Anatomie et de Physiologie a l'Universitd d'Harvard; Dr. William J. Dale ; Dr.J. Mvson Warren, Chirurgien a l'Hopital Gdndral du Massachusetts; Dr. Robert W. Hooper, Chirurgien a PInfirmerie Charitable pour les Yeux et les Oreilles du Massa- chusetts; Dr. Henry J. Bigelow, Chirurgien a l'H6pital Gdndral du Massachusetts; Dr. Charles E. Buckingham ; Dr. George S. H. Lyman ; Dr. Edward H. Clarke, Professeur de Matiere Mddicale a l'Universite d'Harvard; Dr. Luther Parks, Jr.; Dr. J. Baxter Upham. comite executif: Dr. Jonv Ware, Aneien Professeur de Thdorie et de Pratique de Mddicine a l'Uni- versitd d'Harvard; Dr. David W. Cheever ; Dr. J. N. Borland; Dr. C. D. Homans ; Dr. Robert Ware; Dr. James C. White ; Dr. Richard M. Hodges; Dr. Calvin G. Page. administrateurs: Amos A. Lawrence, Trdsorier de l'Universite d'Harvard; John Lowell. Secretaire,........Francis Minot. (3) FORM OF LEGACY. I give and bequeath to Amos A. Lawrence and John Lowell, Esquires, of Boston, Massachusetts, Trustees, the sum of to be held, invested, and appropriated, for the benefit of Dr. Morton and his family, in such a manner as the said Trustees may determine to be expedient. REMITTING MONEY. A check on any bank, payable to the order of Amos A. Lawrence and John Lowell, Trustees of the Morton Fund, may be sent by mail to either of them, who will immediately acknowledge the receipt of the same. This saves all risk of mail, for, if the check be lost, the money cannot be drawn from the bank without the Endorsement of the Trustees.