The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . e discoverer of the anaisthetic jarop-erties of ether, the credit of which was also claimed byhis pupil, Dr. William Thomas Green Morton {q. v.)and resulted in a long and bitter co
The National cyclopædia of American biography : being the history of the United States as illustrated in the lives of the founders, builders, and defenders of the republic, and of the men and women who are doing the work and moulding the thought of the present time, edited by distinguished biographers, selected from each state, revised and approved by the most eminent historians, scholars, and statesmen of the day . e discoverer of the anaisthetic jarop-erties of ether, the credit of which was also claimed byhis pupil, Dr. William Thomas Green Morton {q. v.)and resulted in a long and bitter controversy. Hislaboratory, opened in Boston in 1836 for iustnic-tion and research in analytical chemistry, is said tohave been the first in this country to receive , as early as 1843, his interest in sulphuric etherwas awakened by the remarkable results he experi-enced on inhaling it to relieve the effects of cfilorinegas. He experimented with it upon himself, unconscious. From that time on he com-municated to many persons his discovery that puresulphuric ether, when mixed with atmospheric air,could be inhaled with entire safety, and he spoke ofit as being suitable for surgical operations. Thecontention of Dr. Morton, who had been a boarderin Dr. Jacksons home as well as a student in hislaboratory, was that he had been searching a longtime for something to alleviate pain in his dental. work, and he discovered this property of ether inde-pendently of Dr. Jackson. After the public demon-stration of the anaesthetic property of ether at theMassachusetts General Hospital, Oct. 16, 1846, Mor-ton laid claim to the discovery. By advice of coun-sel, they applied for a joint patent, Jackson reluct-antly yielding to save his rights of discovery; but asthis did not close the discussion, each subinitted hisclaim to the Academy of Arts and Sciences ofFrance, the highest scientific tribunal in the two years consideration, this body awardeda prize of 2,500
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