Excerpt from Proceedings: In Behalf of the Morton Testimonial

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. Morton, 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 unconscious of the sufferings of disease, the pain of surgical operations, and the pangs of childbirth.

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