Charles T. Jackson Communicates the Ether Discovery

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Title:
Charles T. Jackson Communicates the Ether Discovery
Description:
Jackson issued this publication “to interest both the Surgeon and the Solider, and with the intention of aiding the one and of informing the other” at the outbreak of the Civil War. The Manual provides illustrations and examples of cases from French medical literature, but also supports Jackson’s claim to the discovery of anesthesia: "Those most competent to judge in this case have long since decided that I discovered the principle of anaesthesia, verified it by experiments on my own person, and by my prescription, also, made the application of it to surgery, in the highest sense of that term." The passage displayed here lists Jackson’s history with anesthesia starting with the winter of 1841-1842.
Creator:
Jackson, Charles T. (Charles Thomas), 1805-1880.
Date:
1861
Format:
Documents
Location:
Center for the History of Medicine (Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine)
Collection (local):
Rare Books and Journals
A Manual of Etherization : Containing Directions for the Employment of Ether, Chloroform, and Other Anaesthetic Agents by Inhalation, in Surgical Operations … (Boston : Published for the Author by J. B. Mansfield, 1861)
Subjects:
Ether
Anesthesia
Extent:
2 printed pages, bound.
Link to Item:
https://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/items/show/18106
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Publisher:
Boston : Published for the Author by J. B. Mansfield
Notes:
A Manual of Etherization : Containing Directions for the Employment of Ether, Chloroform, and Other Anaesthetic Agents by Inhalation, in Surgical Operations …
From the Collections of the Boston Medical Library.
Identifier:
1.Fn.17, p. 22-23.