A history of the Massachusetts general hospital : (To August 5, 1851.) / By N. I. Bowditch ... (Privately printed in 1851.).

  • Bowditch, N. I. (Nathaniel Ingersoll), 1805-1861.
Date:
1872
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Credit: A history of the Massachusetts general hospital : (To August 5, 1851.) / By N. I. Bowditch ... (Privately printed in 1851.). 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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    PREFACE. VI] Dr. Mobtos the idea, thought, or purpose i pmxi'i > of making this discovery, and to Dr. C.T.Jackson the fact (!• fait ob- serve) of the safety of the agent used : and attributes the final result equally to them both, regarding the mental pre-occu- pation or engrossment (preoccupation) of the one. and the observations of the other, alike indispensable. This award is obviously an entire triumph of Dr. Mobton over the exclusivt claims <it'his opponent,and must be to him the more gratifying, inasmuch as it has been gained from a tribunal, most if not all of whose members, though strangers to himself, are the scientific correspondents OT personal friends of Dr. Jackson. It is due to the Institution to say, that this is in no sense an official publication, but merely a private and humble con- tribution in its behalf, — a slight and inadequate expression of the interest felt in its -welfare by one who has ever regarded as ami'tig his happiest hours those which he has been privileged to pass in its service.