A guide-book of Boston for physicians . rs. The Massa-chusetts General Hospital, the sole hospital in Boston at thattime, naturally suggested itself as a desirable place for suchan exhibition. Accordingly, Dr. Morton called upon Dr. JohnC. Warren, one of the surgeons of the hospital, and told himthat he had discovered something which would prevent painduring a surgical operation. He did not say what it was, butbegged for an opportunity to employ it in some case in whichDr. Warren might be the operator. Dr. Warren, having had ageneral acquaintance with Dr. Morton for a year or two beforethis ti
A guide-book of Boston for physicians . rs. The Massa-chusetts General Hospital, the sole hospital in Boston at thattime, naturally suggested itself as a desirable place for suchan exhibition. Accordingly, Dr. Morton called upon Dr. JohnC. Warren, one of the surgeons of the hospital, and told himthat he had discovered something which would prevent painduring a surgical operation. He did not say what it was, butbegged for an opportunity to employ it in some case in whichDr. Warren might be the operator. Dr. Warren, having had ageneral acquaintance with Dr. Morton for a year or two beforethis time, listened to this communication as to one of impor-tance and magnitude, and promised, although at the momentunable to comply with the request, to do so on the first occa-sion which offered. The hospital at this time was in a flourish-ing condition, and included in its staff many noted physicians. * For this history of the introduction of ether the writer has made extensiveuse of Dr. B. M. Hodgess The Introduction of Sulphuric GUIDE TO BOSTON 91 The medical staff consisted of Jacob Bigelow, Enoch Hale,John B. S. Jackson, Henry I. Bowditch, John D. Fisher andOliver Wendell Holmes. The surgical staff was made up ofJohn C. Warren, George Hayward, Solomon D. Townsend,Henry J. Bigelow, J. Mason Warren and Samuel is worthy of note that from 1871 until February 1, 1905,the name of Warren — father, son and grandson—has beenenrolled on the surgical staff of the Massachusetts GeneralHospital. The retirement of the present Dr. J. Collins Warrenon the latter date removes for the first time this illustriousname from the roll. On the morning of October 13, 1846, a young man namedGilbert Abbott, twenty years old, was brought into the oper-ating theatre of the hospital to undergo an operation for theremoval of a congenital, but superficial, vascular tumor, justbelow the jaw on the left side of the neck. Arrangements forits performance having been completed, Dr. J. C. W
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