Title |
Author |
Publisher |
Location |
Date |
Elements of chemistry, including the most recent discoveries and applications of the science to medicine and pharmacy, and to the arts |
Kane, Robert |
Harper & Brothers |
New York |
1843 |
A statement of the claims of Charles T. Jackson, M.D. to the discovery of the appicability of sulphuric ether to the prevention of pain in surgical operations. |
Gay, Martin |
David Clapp, printer |
Boston |
1847 |
Some account of the letheon; or, who was the discoverer? |
Warren, Edward |
Dutton and Wentworth, printers |
Boston |
1847 |
Inhalation of ether |
Warren, J. Mason |
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1847 |
Remarks on the proper mode of administering sulphuric ether by inhalation |
Morton, W.T.G. |
Dutton and Wentworth, printers |
Boston |
1847 |
A history of the application of nitrous oxide gas, ether and other vapors, to surgical operations |
Wells, Horace |
J. Gaylord Wells, printer |
Hartford |
1847 |
Boston Medical and Surgical Journal: The discovery of etherization pp. 322-326 |
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Boston Medical and Surgical Journal |
Boston |
1848 |
Principles recognized by scientific men applies to the ether controversy |
Abbott, Joseph Hale |
Littell’s Living Age |
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1848 |
The ether controversy. Vindication of the hospital report of 1848 |
Bowditch, N.I. |
John Wilson, printer |
Boston |
1848 |
Defense des droits du Dr. Charles T. Jackson: a la decouverte di l’etherisation suivie des pieces justificatives. . . |
Lord, Joseph L. et Lord, Henry C. |
H. Vrayet de Surcy et Ce |
Paris |
1848 |
Report of the board of trustees of the Massachusetts General Hospital |
MGH |
John Wilson, printer |
Boston |
1848 |
A history of the ether discovery: report of the Trustees of the Massachusetts General Hospital |
Dana, Richard Henry |
Littell’s Living Age |
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1848 |
Reports of the first exhibition of the Worcester County Mechanics Association, at the Nashua Halls, in the City of Worcester. [contains a history of anesthesia, p. 30] |
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Henry J. Howland, printer |
Worcester, MA |
1848 |
A defense of D. Charles T. Jackson’s claims to the discovery of etherization. |
Lord, Joseph L. & Lord, Henry C. |
Littell’s Living Age |
Boston |
1848 |
The casket and the ribbon, or the honors of ether |
Dwinelle, William H. |
American Journal of Dental Science |
Baltimore |
1849 |
Lithotrity and lithotomy with the use of ether in those operations |
Warren J. Mason |
American Journal of the Medical Sciences |
Boston |
1849 |
House of Representatives. William T.G. Morton, M.D. – sulphuric ether, Report No. 114. |
Dr. Edwards report |
U.S. 30th Congress – Second Session |
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1849 |
Memorial addressed to the trustees of the Massachusetts General Hospital in behalf of Charles T. Jackson, M.D. in relation to the discovery of etherization |
Lord, Joseph L. & Henry C. |
Thurston, Torry & Co., printers |
Boston |
1849 |
Assorted magazine articles on anesthesia |
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1850-1894 |
On the physiological effects of sulphuric ether and its superiority to chloroform |
Morton, W.T.G. |
Medical and Surgical Journal Office |
Boston |
1850 |
Remarks on the comparative value of the different anaesthetic agents |
Hayward, George |
Boston Medical and Surgical Journal |
Boston |
1850 |
Discovery by the late Dr. Horace Wells, of the applicability of nitrous oxyd gas, sulphuric ether and other vapors, in surgical operations, nearly two years before the patented discovery of Drs. Charles T. Jackson and W.T.G. Morton. |
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Case, Tiffany & Co. |
Hartford |
1850 |
A memoir of Samuel George Morton, M.D., late president of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia |
Meigs, Charles D. |
Academy of Natural Sciences |
Philadelphia |
1851 |
Discovery by the late Dr. Horace Wells, of the applicability of nitrous oxyd gas, sulphuric ether and other vapors, in surgical operations, nearly two years before the patented discovery of Drs. Charles T. Jackson and W.T.G. Morton. |
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Elihu Geer Stationer and Steam Printer |
Hartford |
1852 |
Report to the House of Representatives of the United States of America, vindicating the rights of Charles T. Jackson to the discovery of the anaesthetic effects of ether vapor, and disproving the claims of W.T.G. Morton to that discovery |
Select committee on the ether discovery |
U.S.32nd Congress |
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1852 |
House of Representatives. William T.G. Morton, M.D. – sulphuric ether |
Bissell, W.H., chair of select committee |
U.S.32nd Congress – First Session |
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1852 |
Senate report No. 421. |
Walker, I.P. report |
U.S. 32nd Congress – Second Session |
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1853 |
An examination of the question of anaesthesia, on the memorial of Charles Thomas Wells. . . |
Walker, Isaac, P. chair |
U.S. 32nd Congress – Second Session |
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1853 |
Trial and conviction of Dr. Stephen T. Beale; with the letters of chief justice Lewis and judges Black and Woodword, on his case. Interesting ether cases. . . |
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T.K. Collins, Jr. printer |
Philadelphia |
1855 |
An appeal to the public, by members of the medical profession |
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Wm C. Bryant & Co.- printers |
New York |
1859 |
Dr. Wells, the discoverer of anaesthesia |
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Gray, J.A., printer |
New York |
1860 |
Report of a committee of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, on the alleged dangers which accompany the inhalation of the vapor of sulphuric ether |
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Medical and Surgical Journal Office |
Boston |
1861 |
Proceedings in behalf of the Morton testimonnial |
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Geo. C. Rand & Avery, printers |
Boston |
1861 |
Senate report No. 89 |
Wilson report |
U.S. 37th Congress – Third Session |
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1862 |
Dr. Wells, the discoverer of anaesthesia |
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Robert Larter, printer |
New York |
1864 |
The discovery of etherization pp. 718-725 |
Abbott, Joseph Hale |
Atlantic Monthly, June |
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1868 |
On nitrous oxide |
Fox, Charles James |
British Journal of Dental Science |
London |
1869 |
Boston Medical and Surgical Journal: New York Medical Record on the history of anesthesia p. 421 |
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Boston Medical and Surgical Journal |
Boston |
1870 |
Dr. Wells, the discoverer of anaesthesia |
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Case, Lockwood & Brainard, Printers |
Hartford |
1870 |
Historical memoranda relative to the discovery of etherization and to the connection with it of the late Dr. william T.G. Morton |
Morton testimonial fund committee |
Rand, Avery & Frye, printers |
Boston |
1871 |
Nitrous oxide in prolonged surgical operations |
Goodwillie, D.H. |
Dental Miscellany |
New York |
1874 |
The discovery of modern anaesthesia: a critique |
Stearns, H.P. |
Medical Record |
Hartford |
1876 |
The invention of anaesthetic inhalation of “discovery of anaesthesia.” |
Morton, William J. |
D. Appleton and Company |
New York |
1880 |
Anaesthesia. Who made and developed this great discovery? |
Colton, G.Q. |
A.G. Sherwood & Co. – publishers |
New York |
1886 |
Musings on cheerfulness and health |
Colton, G.Q. |
Press of E.M.Day |
New York |
1893 |
A contribution to the history of the discovery of modern surgical anaesthesia, with some new data relative to the work of Dr. Crawford W. Long |
Grandy, Luther B. |
Virginia Medical Monthly |
Atlanta, GA |
1893 |
A true history of the discovery of anaesthesia. A reply to Mrs. Elizabeth Whitman Morton |
Colton, G.Q. |
A.G. Sherwood & Co. – printers |
New York |
1896 |
History of anaesthesia; or painless surgery |
Hayden, Wm. R. |
International Journal of Surgery Co. |
New York |
1896 |
Dr. Morton’s discovery of anesthesia |
Morton, Elizabeth Whitman |
McClure’s Magazine |
New York |
1896 |
Long, the discoverer of anaesthesia; a presentation of his original documents |
Young, Hugh H. |
Johns Hopkins Historical Bulletin No. 77-78 |
Baltimore |
1897 |
Local and regional anesthesia with cocain and other analgesic drugs – the latest methods. |
Matas, Rudolph |
Louisiana State Medical Society |
New Orleans |
1900 |
Memoranda relating to the discovery of surgical anesthesia, and Dr. William T.G Morton’s relation to this event. |
Morton, William J. |
Post-Graduate |
New York |
1905 |
Anaesthetics ancient and modern: an historical sketch of anaesthesia |
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Burroughs Wellcome & Co. |
London |
1907 [?] |
Sixty-first annual session of the medical association of Georgia |
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Medical Association of Georgia |
Athens, GA |
1910 |
61st Annual session of the medical association of Georgia: Crawford W. Long, M.D. memorial edition |
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Medical Assn. of Georgia |
Athens, GA |
1910 |
Old Penn: Weekly review of the University of Pennsylvania. [Article: Documentary evidence bearing upon Dr. Crawford W. Long’s discovery of ether anesthesia.] |
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University of Pennsylvania |
Philadelphia |
1915 |
Some personal recollections and private correspondence of Dr. Crawford Williamson Long, discoverer of anaesthesia with sulphuric ether, together with documentary proofs of his priority in this wonderful discovery |
Jacobs, Joseph |
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Atlanta, GA |
1919 |
Some personal recollections and private correspondence of Dr. Crawford Williamson Long, discoverer of anaesthesia with sulphuric ether, together with documentary proofs of his priority in this wonderful discovery |
Jacobs, Joseph |
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Atlanta, GA |
1919 |
Ethylene, a new anesthetic; its comparative value |
McKesson, E.I. |
Toledo Technical Appliance Co. |
Toledo, OH |
1924 |
Ethylene anesthesia |
Fairlie, H.P. |
Toledo Technical Appliance Co. |
Toledo, OH |
1924[?] |
Horace Wells |
Wells, Ernest A. |
Boston Medical and Surgical Journal |
Boston |
1925 |
The pneumatic institution of Thomas Beddoes at Clifton, 1798 |
Miller, Albert H. |
Annals of Medical History |
New York |
1931 |
The discoverer of anaesthesia: Dr. Horace Wells of Hartford |
Erving, Henry Wood |
Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine |
New Haven |
1933 |
Local and regional anesthesia: a retrospect and prospect |
Matas, Rudolph |
Americal Journal of Surgery |
New York |
1934 |
Horace Wells dishonored in Rene Fulop-Miller’s book “Triumph Over Pain” |
Archer, W. Harry |
American Society for the Advancement of General Anesthesia in Dentistry |
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1938 |
The Bulletin of the Academy of Medicine of Cleveland [“Horace Wells’ Anniversary”, p. 14] |
Klaus, E. |
Academy of Medicine of Cleveland |
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1939 |
Historical notes on Horace Wells |
Archer, W. Harry |
Dental Rays , March |
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1939 |
Chronological history of Horace Wells, discoverer of anesthesia |
Archer, W. Harry |
Bulletin of the History of Medicine , December |
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1939 |
Horace Wells triumphs over pain |
Soifer, Max E. |
Journal of the American Dental Association |
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1939 |
Horace Wells points the finger to anesthesia |
Soifer, Max E. |
Dental Items of Interest |
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1939 |
Dr. Horace Wells, the discoverer of anesthesia |
Soifer, Max E. |
Dental Items of Interest |
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1939 |
Discoverer of anesthesia |
Soifer, Max E. |
Medical Library Assn. |
Newark, NJ |
1939 |
Horace Wells: an appreciation |
Johnson, J.H. |
Oral Health |
Canada |
ca. 1939 |
The Chronicle : Doctor Wells and Anesthesia pp 195-197 |
Kezerian, Stephen |
Hartford Public H.S. |
Hartford |
1940 |
Letters of Dr. and Mrs. Horace Wells discovered |
Archer, W. Harry |
Dental Rays, January |
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1940 |
The bulletin of the Connecticut State Dental Association: convention issue [see p. 38, tribute paid to Horace Wells by CSDA] |
Jones, R. Bullock |
CSDA |
Waterbury, CT |
1940 |
Historical notes on Horace Wells |
Soifer, Max E. |
Bulletin of the History of Medicine |
Baltimore |
1941 |
Anaesthesia |
Steel, William A. |
Temple University[?] |
Philadelphia |
1941 |
The development of anesthesia |
Keys, Thomas E. |
Mayo Clinic? |
Rochester, MN |
1942 |
A Memoir to the Academy of Sciences at Paris on a new Use of Sulphuric Ether |
Morton, W.T.G. |
Henry Schuman |
New York |
1946 |
Hartford Hospital bulletin |
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Hartford Hospital |
Hartford |
1969 |
Barrell of lunatics: places associated with the first public demonstration of ether anesthesia |
Lai, David C. |
Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology |
Park Ridge, IL |
2003 |
Anaesthesia! The greatest discovery of the age! Who is entitled to the credit of it? Let those read who desire to know the truth |
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Journal of Commerce |
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undated |