Some pioneers of anaesthetics : in honour of the Victoria Dental Hospital, September 30th, 1902, and in memory of September 30th and October 16th, 1846, Boston, U.S.A.

  • Owens College.
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1902
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Credit: Some pioneers of anaesthetics : in honour of the Victoria Dental Hospital, September 30th, 1902, and in memory of September 30th and October 16th, 1846, Boston, U.S.A. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    i “A GLORIOUS CONQUEST FOR HUMANITY “ The fierce extremity of suffering has been steeped in the waters of forgetfulness, and the deepest furrow in the knitted brow of agony has been smoothed for ever.”—O. W. Holmes. Some Pioneers of Anaesthetics^ [Friar Laurence, R. & J. IV. 3.] NITROUS OXIDE. Joseph Priestley ------ Humphry Davy ------ Horace ^Vells [Collyer, Colton, Riggs, Evans, Bert.] SULPHURIC ETHER. M. Faraday (?) ------ W. T. G. Morton [On himself and on Eben. H. Frost] - “ Before Whom, in all time, Surgery was Agony Since Whom Science has control of Pain.” J. C. Warren [On Gilbert Abbott, 20, Painter, Single] [Wilhite, Long, Jackson. Hayward, Bigelow, Eoot, Robinson, Liston, Buchanan, Longet, John Snow, Simpson, Bernard, Clover ] 1776 1800 1844 I 1846 1846 CHLOROFORM. James Young Simpson ----- 1847 “ I’ll imitate the pities of old Surgeons To this lost limb—who ’ere they show their art Cast me asleep, then cut the diseas’d part.” T. Middleton, “Women Beware Women,” iv. 1, 1657. [Guthrie, Soubieran, Liebig (1831), Dumas (1834), Waldie, Flourens, G. Keith, M. Duncan, Snow, Nunneley, James Arnott.] IN HONOUR OF The Victoria Dental Hospital, SEPTEMBER 30th, 1902, And in Memory of September 30th and October I6th, 1846, Boston, U.S.A.