A popular treatise on the teeth : containing a history of the dental art ... also a full ... account of the history of ether or lethean ... / By Mayo G. Smith.

  • Smith, Mayo G.
Date:
1848
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Credit: A popular treatise on the teeth : containing a history of the dental art ... also a full ... account of the history of ether or lethean ... / By Mayo G. Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    plies rather more extended than my time will at pres- ent permit me to devote to them. In the mean time, I will state, for your satisfaction, that the objections to the use of ether, as proposed in your note, are without foundation. [See questions referred to, in preceding letter.] Respectfully yours, J. C. Warren. To Dr. Mayo G. Smith, Newburyport. « New York, Oct. 27th, 1847. Sin: To the questions you ask in yours of the 22d inst., I can make some reply, at least to some of them. The use of ether inhalation does not in the least re- tard the curative process. It does not cause the edges of the wound to be everted or retard the healing. Blood does coagulate during operations performed under the influence of ether. It must be a mere assertion that tubercles of the lungs are produced by the ether. * * Yours very respectfully, Valentine Mott. To Dr. Mayo G. Smith, Newburyport. Dr. Crosby, the distinguished Professor of Surgery and Obstetrics at Hanover Medical College, has per- formed many capital operations while patients were