TESTIMONIAL
MEMBERS
THE MEDICAL  PROFESSION
PHILADELPHIA, NEW YORK, AND BOSTON,
IN BEHALF OF
WM. T. G. MORTON, M. D.
        PHILADELPHIA:
COLLINS, PRINTER, 705 JAYNE STREET.
            1860. 
 
TESTIMONIAL
       OF MEMBERS  OF  THE  MEDICAL PROFESSION OF  PHILADELPHIA.

                      IN BEHALF OF WM.  T. G. MORTON, M. D.

 To their Fellow Citizens:
                                                                     February 15, 1860.
     The vast importance of the effect of the inhalation of ether  in preventing and  suspending
 pain has long ceased to be a matter of doubt among the members  of the medical profession, and
 is too well known to the intelligent citizens of Philadelphia to need  any further  exposition.
 Etherization has been tested in countless instances, under a great variety of circumstances, during
 more than twelve years of constant employment by thousands of operators; and the result of this
 unsurpassed experience is decisive in confirmation  of its safety and efficiency as a suppressor of
 physical suffering, and a  powerful assistant of the healing art.
     Believing, therefore, that anaesthetic inhalation is  the  most  available and potent means of
 alleviating pain  yet employed in the practice of surgery; and, consequently, that it is one of the
 greatest gifts to humanity of the present age, we cannot but regard  the original and successful
 introducer of this invaluable boon as entitled to the warm gratitude of mankind.
     We believe the practical originator  of anaesthetic inhalation to be Dr. William T. G. Morton,
 of Boston, Mass., in whose behalf we are happy to  bear witness in this testimonial.
     We are convinced that he is the one who first  resorted to ethereal inhalation for the purpose
 of producing insensibility to pain in a patient while  undergoing a surgical operation;  and that
 he is the one who first succeeded in  effecting this result.  He was, indisputably, the first to urge
 the anaesthetic properties of the vapor of ether upon the attention of the medical profession; and
 thus succeeded in establishing the practice of anaesthetic inhalation.
     We therefore take great pleasure, and  at the same time perform an act of duty, in  recom-
 mending the claims of Dr. Morton to the favorable consideration of our fellow citizens; and would
 cordially urge upon them the propriety of showing their estimate of his services by a substantial
 acknowledgment, such as is manifestly due from  an  enlightened community to one  who has
 conferred upon its members so inestimable a benefit.
     We may refer to the annals of medicine in the Old  World  for many  instances in which
 analogous  discoveries of less moment have been  recognized and  paid for by European  govern-
 ments, sometimes even before their  true  value had  been ascertained.  The length of time which
 has elapsed since the adoption of etherization has only the  more firmly established its position
 by demonstrating its safety and developing its usefulness.
     Our National Government has admitted the justice  and  importance of Dr. Morton's claims  in
 the introduction of ethereal anaesthesia, but has neglected to provide the proper reward.
     Under these circumstances the plan of individual contribution has been successfully resorted
to by the citizens of Boston and New York  as the  best suited to the  temper of our people, and
the most likely to reach a satisfactory conclusion..
    An opportunity is now offered  to the citizens of Philadelphia to unite with their neighbors
in the same work of benevolence and justice; and it is in this that  we earnestly desire to interest
them.
    We sincerely hope that our townsmen, in whose liberality and sense of right we  have oreat
confidence, may join us in rendering the tribute to his merits and necessities which has elsewhere
been accorded to him, and which we  believe him to  deserve.
 
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TESTIMONIAL
MEMBERS
THE MEDICAL PROFESSION
PHILADELPHIA, NEW YORK, AND BOSTON,
IN BEHALF OF
WM. T. G. MORTON, M. D.
         PHILADELPHIA:
COLLINS, PRINTER, 705 JAYNE STREET.
            1860. 
 
5
               PROCEEDINGS

Of the Medical Profession of Philadelphia, in behalf of
              W. T. G. Morton, M. B.
   A meeting  of the  members of the  medical profession
who had endorsed the testimonial  in behalf of Dr. W.
T. G. Morton, was held-at the Hospital Buildings, Spruce
Street, on Monday, March 26, 1860 ;  when, on motion, Dr.
Wilson Jewell  was  called to the chair, and Dr. T. H.
Bache was chosen Secretary.
   The  following  preamble  and  resolutions were  then
offered, and having been read by the Secretary, were una-
nimously adopted:—
   " Whereas, after innumerable  trials, made during the
last fourteen years, it has been  established  to the satis-
faction of the world, that the inhalation of ether may be
safely employed for producing insensibility to pain;
   " And whereas, the  attention of the  medical profession,
and through it of the public generally, was directed to
this fact by Dr.  Wm. T. G. Morton, of Boston, who first
practically demonstrated  that ether may  be safely used
by inhalation for  annulling  pain, in  the' Massachusetts
General Hospital, where,  on  the  16th of October, 1846, a
severe surgical  operation  was successfully performed by
the late Dr. John C. Warren, without pain to the patient, 
(5
whilst under the influence of ether, administered by Dr.
Morton;
   " And whereas, our National Government, whilst admit-
ting the claims of Dr. Morton, has failed to reward him
for this great service to his country and to humanity:
   "Resolved, that in  the  opinion of  this  meeting,  the
world  is indebted to  Dr.  Morton for  having practically
proved  the  value and safety of ether as an anaesthetic
agent, and that  he is, therefore, entitled to the lasting
gratitude of mankind.
   " Resolved, That we cordially recommend to our fellow-
citizens the ' National Testimonial Fund,'lately commenced
in Boston and  New York  in behalf of Dr. Morton, and
that  we will do all in our power to influence them to sub-
scribe to the same.
   " Resolved, That, for the purpose of facilitating  the
subscriptions, a copy  of these resolutions duly authenti-
cated by the officers  of this  meeting, be  furnished  to
Messrs. Brown, Brothers &  Co., the receivers for this city,
together with such other documents in  explanation of the
Testimonial as  may be approved by the officers of this
meeting."
   On motion adjourned.

                          WILSON JEWELL, Chaiaman.
  THOS. HEWSON BACHE, Secretary. 
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                TESTIMONIAL

  OP MEMBERS OF THE MEDICAL PROFESSION  OF
                     PHILADELPHIA,

                          IN BEHALF OF

                 WM. T. G. MORTOX, M. D.

To their Fellow Citizens:
                                         February 15, 1860.
   The vast importance of the effect of the inhalation of ether in
preventing and suspending pain has long ceased to be a matter
of doubt  among the members of the  medical profession, and is
too well known to  the  intelligent citizens  of  Philadelphia to
need  any further exposition.  Etherization  has been tested in
countless  instances,  under a  great  variety of circumstances,
during more than  twelve years  of  constant  employment by
thousands of operators; and the  result of this  unsurpassed ex-
perience is decisive in  confirmation of its safety and efficiency
as a suppressor of physical suffering, and a powerful assistant
of the healing art.
   Believing,  therefore,  that anaesthetic  inhalation  is  the  most
available  and potent means of alleviating pain  yet employed in
the practice of surgery; and, consequently, that it is one of the
greatest  gifts to humanity of the present age, we cannot  but
regard the original  and successful  introducer of this invaluable
boon as entitled to the warm gratitude of mankind.
  We  believe the practical originator of anesthetic inhalation to
be Dr. William T. G. Morton, of  Boston, Mass.,  in whose  behalf
we are happy to bear witness in this testimonial. 
                              8
  We  are convinced that he is the one who first resorted  to
ethereal inhalation for the purpose of producing insensibility  to
pain in a patient  while undergoing a surgical operation; and
that he is the  one who first succeeded  in effecting this result.
He was, indisputably, the first to urge the  anaesthetic properties
of the vapor of ether upon the attention of the medical profession;
and thus  succeeded in  establishing the practice  of anaesthetic
inhalation.
   We  therefore take great pleasure, and at  the same  time per-
form an act of duty, in recommending the claims of Dr. Morton
to the  favorable consideration of our fellow citizens; and would
cordially urge upon them the propriety of showing their estimate
of  his services by  a  substantial acknowledgment, such  as  is
manifestly due from an  enlightened community to one who has
conferred upon its members so inestimable a benefit.
   We may refer to the annals of medicine in the Old World for
many  instances in  which analogous discoveries of less moment
have been recognized and  paid for by  European governments,
sometimes even before their true value had been ascertained. The
length of time which has elapsed since the adoption of etheriza-
tion has only the  more firmly established its position by demon-
strating its safety and developing its usefulness.
   Our National Government has admitted  the justice and im-
portance  of Dr. Morton's claims in  the  introduction of ethereal
anassthesia, but has neglected to provide the  proper reward.
   Under these circumstances the plan of individual contribution
 has been successfully resorted  to by the citizens of Boston and
 New York as the best  suited to the  temper of our people, and
 the most likely to  reach a satisfactory conclusion.
    An opportunity is now offered to the citizens of Philadelphia
 to unite with their neighbors in  the same work of benevolence and
 justice; and it is in this that we earnestly desire to interest them.
    We sincerely hope that our townsmen, in  whose liberality and 
9
sense of right we have great confidence, may join us in rendering
the  tribute to his  merits  and  necessities which  has elsewhere
been accorded to him, and which we believe him to deserve.

                      University of Pennsylvania.
    GEORGE B. WOOD, M. D , Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine.
    HUGH L. HODGE, M. D., Professor of Obstetrics and the Diseases of Women and
      Children.
    JOSEPH CARSON, M. D., Professor of Materia Medica and Pharmacy.
    ROBERT E. ROGERS, M. D., Professor of Chemistry.
    JOSEPH LEIDY, M. D., Professor of Anatomy.

                       Jefferson Medical College.
    JOSEPH PANCOAST, M. D., Professor of General, Descriptive, and Surg. Anat.
    CHAS. D. MEIGS, M. D., Professor of Obstetrics and Dis. of Women and Children.
    FRANKLIN BACHE, M. D., Professor of Chemistry.
    SAMUEL D.  GROSS, M. D., Professor of  Institutes and Practice of Surgery.
    T. D. MITCHELL, M. D., Professor of Materia Medica and General Therapeutics.
    SAMUEL H. DICKSON, M. D., Professor of Practice of Medicine.

             Pennsylvania  College.—Medical Department.
    B. HOWARD RAND, M. D., Professor of  Chemistry.
    HENRY HARTSHORNE, M. D., Professor of Practice of Medicine.
    LEWIS D. HARLOW, M. D.,  Professor of Obstetrics, Ac.
    WILLIAM S. HALSEY, M. D., Professor of Surgery.
    WILLIAM HEMBEL TAGGART, M. D., Professor of Materia Medica.
    JAMES AITKEN MEIGS, M. D., Professor of Institutes of Medicine.
    WILLIAM H. GOBRECHT, M. D., Professor of Anatomy.

                        Pennsylvania  Hospital.
 WM. W. GERHARD, M. D., Physician.   JOSEPH PANCOAST, M. D., Surgeon.
 JAMES J. LEVICK, M. D.,      "      EDWARD PEACE, M.D.,
 JOHN FORSYTH MEIGS, M. D.,  "      EDWARD HARTSHORNE, M. D., "
 FRANCIS G.  SMITH, M.D.,

                        Philadelphia Hospital.
 S. D. GROSS, M. D., Surgeon.           C.  PENDLETON TUTT, M. D., Physician.
 D H AGNEW, M.D.,   "            JOHN WILTBANK, M. D.,
 R. J. LEVIS, M. D.,     "            R- A. F.  PENROSE, M. D.,
 R. S. KENDERDINE, M.D., Surgeon.    LEWIS D. HARLOW, M. D.,
 WM. MAYBURRY, M. D., Physician.     WM. D. STROUD, M.D.,
 J. L. LUDLOW, M. D.,        "       J-  DA  COSTA,  M. D., 
10
                            Wills Hospital.

S. LITTELL, M.D., Surgeon.            S. L. HOLLINGSWORTH, M. D., Phys.
ADDINELL HEWSON, M. D., Surgeon.   JOHN J. REESE, M.D.,
T.  G.  MORTON.M. D., Surgeon.         JAMES J. LEVICK, M. D.,
WILLIAM HUNT, M. D.,  "            A.  DOUGLASS HALL,

                  Episcopal Hospital of Philadelphia.

J. C. MORRIS. M. D., Physician.        WILLIAM HUNT, M. D.. Surgeon.
H.  HARTSHORNE, M. D.,  "         H. E.  DRAYTON, M. D.,
J. DA COSTA, M. D.,       "         R. S.  KENDERDINE, M. D.,  "
WM. MAYBURRY, M. D.,   "

                   Charity Hospital of Philadelphia.

P.  B.  GODDARD, M. D.,  Surgery.
WM. H. PANCOAST, M. D., "
Z.  RING JONES, M. D., Eye,  Ear, and Urinary Organs.
H. ST. CLAIR ASH, M.  D., Diseases of Children.
BURROUGHS PRICE, M. D., Diseases of Digestive Organs, Brain, and Nervous System.
A. W. GRIFFITHS, M. D., Obstetrics.
ALEX. C. HART, M. D., Diseases of Women.
W.  E. WEATHERLY, M. D., Diseases of Respiratory Organs.
S.  UPDEGROVE, M. D., Diseases of the Skin.
J.  L.  LUDLOW, M. D., Fevers and General Diseases.

                 St. Joseph's Hospital of Philadelphia.

WILLIAM V. KEATING, M.D., Phys.  J. H.  B. M'CLELLAN, M. D., Surgeon.
S. WEIR MITCHELL, M. D.,      "    WM. BYRD PAGE, M. D.,
WILLIAM KELLER, M. D.,       "    JOHN H. BRINTON, M. D.,
A. BOURNONVILLE, M.D.,Obstetrician JOSEPH LEIDY, M. D., Pathologist.

                  Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

WM.  PEPPER, M.D., Consulting Phys.  WM. R. DUNTON, M. D., Attending phys.
JOHN F. MEIGS, M. D.,      "      R. A. F.  PENROSE, M. D.,
F. W. LEWIS, M. D., Attending Phys.  T. H. BACHE, M. D.,

                 Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane.

             THOMAS S. KIRKBRIDE, M. D., Physician in Chief.
             EDWARD A. SMITH, M.D., Resident Physician.

                      City Hospital of Philadelphia.

                           JOHN BELL, M. D.

                         Moyamensing Prison.

                       HENRY YALE SMITH, M. D.

                           Board of Health.

                      P. B. GODDARD, M. D., President. 
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Howard Hospital.
 D., >
r y. >  General and Special Surgery.
S. D. GROSS, M. D.,
D. D. CLARK, M.
J. A. MEIGS, M. D., Diseases of the Chest.
J. KLAPP, M. D., Diseases of Digestive Organs.
0. A. JUDSON, M. D., Diseas'es of the Skin.
G.  R. MOREHOUSE, M.D., Diseases of Brain and Nervous System.
W. DARRACH, M. D., Fevers.
E.  McCLELLAN, M. D., Diseases of Females.
CHAS.  NEFF, M. D., Diseases of the Urinary Organs.

          College of Physicians of Philadelphia.

            GEORGE B. WOOD, M. D., President.
FRANKLIN BACHE, M. D., Vice-Prest.
EDWARD HARTSHORNE, M. D., Sec.
J.  RODMAN PAUL, "M. D., Treasurer.
JOHN BELL, M. D.
HUGH L. HODGE, M. D.
CHARLES  D. MEIGS, M. D.
R. LA ROCHE, M. D.
BENJAMIN HORNOR COATES, M. D.
LEWIS P.  GEBHARD, M. D.
WILLIAM DARRACH, M. D.
THEOPHILUS E.  BEESLEY,  M. D.
WILLIAM W. GERHARD,  M. D
JOSEPH PANCOAST, M. D.
D. FRANCIS CONDIE, M. D.
SQUIRE LITTELL, M. D.
ANTHONY BOURNONVILLE, M. D.
JOSEPH CARSON, M. D.
THOMAS S. KIRKBRIDE, M. D.
FRANCIS  WEST, M. D.
EDWARD  PEACE, M. D.
WILLIAM PEPPER, M. D.
DAVID C. SKERRETT, M. D.
JOHN D. GRISCOM, M. D.
PAUL BECK GODDARD, M. D.
ALFRED STILLE, M. D.
JOHN J. REESE, M. D.
JOHN FORSYTH MEIGS, M. D.
LEWIS RODMAN, M. D.
FRANCIS  G. SMITH, M. D.
WASHINGTON L. ATLEE, M. D.
JOHN NEILL, M.D.
SAMUEL D. GROSS, M. D.
ANTHONY E. STOCKER, M. D.
GOUVERNEUR EMERSON M. D.
JAMES E. RHOADS, M.D.
T. STEWARDSON, M.D.
E. WALLACE, M. D.
JOSEPH KLAPP, M. D.
SAMUEL L.  HOLLINGSWORTH, M. D.
JOHN L. LUDLOW, M. D.
JOHN H. B.  M'CLELLAN, M. D.
WILLIAM V. KEATING, M. D.
D. PAUL LAJUS, M. D.
THOMAS S.  REED, M.D.
RICHARD II. TOWNSEND, M. D.
ISAAC REMINGTON, M. D.
JOHN B. BIDDLE, M. D.
HENRY E. DRAYTON, M. D.
CASPAR MORRIS, M. D.
JAMES  J. LEVICK, M. D.
JOSEPH LEIDY, M.D.
WILSON JEWELL, M. D.
HENRY HARTSHORNE, M. D.
WILLIAM KELLER, M. D.
WILLIAM MAYBURRY, M. D.
THOMAS HEWSON BACHE, M. D.
JAMES  V. EMLEN, M. D.
JOSEPH HOPKINSON, M. D.
WILLIAM H. HOOPER, M.D.
ADDINELL  HEWSON, M. D.
DAVID  GILBERT, M. D.
B. HOWARD RAND. M. D.
WILLIAM HUNT, M. D.
R. A. F. PENROSE, M. D.
WILLIAM H. GOBRECHT, M. D.
WILLIAM D. STROUD, M. D.
NATHAN L. HATFIELD, M. D.
S. WEIR MITCHELL, M. D.
JOHN H. BRINTON, M. D.
FRANCIS W. LEWIS, M. D.
 SAMUEL LEWIS, M. D.
 T. DILLARD, M.D.
 G. H. ROBINETT, M. D.
 S. C. BRINCKLE, M. D. 
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Philadelphia County Medical Society.
                 ISAAC REMINGTON, M. D., President
DAVID GILBERT, M.D., Vice-President. HENRY HARTSHORNE, M. D.
JOSEPH CARSON, M. D.,   do.
W. B.  ATKINSON, M. D., Secretary
S. D. GROSS, M. D.
D. FRANCIS CONDIE, M. D.
WILSON JEWELL, M. D.
JOSEPH PANCOAST, M. D.
CH.  D. MEIGS, M. D.
R. E. ROGERS, M. D.
EDWARD PEACE, M. D.
JOHN BELL, M. D.
S. LITTELL, M. D.
W. W. GERHARD, M. D.
D. PAUL LAJUS, M. D.
ADDINELL HEWSON, M. D.
J. H. B. M'CLELLAN, M. D.
A. NEBINGER, M. D.
D. D. CLARK, M. D.
E. WARD, M. D.
S. WEIR MITCHELL, M. D.
J. CHESTON MORRIS, M. D.
R. H. TOWNSEND, M. D.
T. M. DRYSDALE, M. D.
WM. D. STROUD, M. D.
ANTH'Y BOURNONVILLE, M. D.
W. K. GILBERT, M. D.
THEOPH'S E. BEESLEY, M. D.
R. S. KENDERDINE, M. D.
C. F. WITTIG, M. D.
J. H. HASKELL. M. D.
ROBT. Q. SHELMERDINE, M. D.
ROBT. C. SHELMERDINE, M. D.
J. HENRY SMALTZ, M. D.
LEVI CURTIS, M. D.
SAM'L B.  WYLIE MITCHELL, M. D.
EDWD  MARIS, M. D.
AUG. C. BOURNONVILLE, M. D.
J. G. HUNT, M. D.
JAMES  V. EMLEN,  M. D.
GEO. B. WOOD, M. D.
FRANKLIN BACHE, M. D.
N. L. HATFIELD, M. D.
ALFRED STILLE, M. D.
WILLIAM V. KEATING, M. D.
HUGH L. HODGE, M. D.
JOSEPH LEIDY, M.  D.
JNO. WM. JONES, M. D.
WILLIAM PEPPER. M. D.
PAUL B. GODDARD, M. D.
B. H. COATES, M. D.
M. M. LEVIS, M. D.
FRANCIS WEST, M. D.
LEWIS D. HARLOW, M. D.
LEWIS RODMAN, M. D.
JAS. AITKEN MEIGS, M. D.
JOHN RODMAN PAUL, M. D.
WILLIAM HUNT, M. D.
D. HAYES AGNEW, M. D.
R. J. LEVIS, M. D.
E. B. SHAPLEIGH, M. D.
JNO. KNORR, M. D.
WM. HARRIS, M. D.
JNO. WILTBANK, M. D.
W. H. GOBRECHT, M. D.
SAMUEL JACKSON, M. D.
A. OWEN STILLE, M. D.
WM. D. HOYT, M. D.
GEO. J. ZIEGLER, M. D.
WASHINGTON L. ATLEE, M. D
WM. CURRAN, M. D.
W. DARRACH, M. D.
JAMES J. LEVICK. M. D.
J. FORSYTH MEIGS, M. D.
WM. H. HOOPER, M. D.
THOS. HEWSON BACHE, M. D.
JOHN D. GRISCOM, M. D.
E. BOYLSTON JACKSON, M. D.
A. W. GRIFFITHS, M. D.
JOSEPH KLAPP, M. D.
OWEN OSLER, M. D.
PHILIP DE YOUNG, M. D.
J. F. BIRD, M. D.
R. H. LEE, M. D.
COLIN ARROTT, M. D.
W. KELLER, M. D.
H. EVANS, M. D.
PRESTON W. RUSSELL, M. D.
JOHN S. ROHRER, M. D.
G. EMERSON, M. D.
CHARLES NEFF, M.  D.
D. C. SKERRETT, M. D.
WM. NOTSON, M. D.
WM. BYRD PAGE, M. D. 
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F. SCOFFIN, M. D.
A. S. M'MURRAY, M. D.
W. H. GILLINGHAM, M. D.
HENRY YALE SMITH, M. D.
T. STANTON CROWLY, M. D.
A. H. FISH, M. D.
B. H. DEACON, M. D.
WM. J. FLEMING, M. D.
E. M'CLELLAN, M. D.
L. P. GEBHARD,  M. D.
WM. F. PATTERSON, M. D.
WM. CLENDANIEL, M. D.
ANDREW CHEESEMAN, M. D.
JAMES N. PATTERSON, M. D.
JOSEPH HERITAGE, M. D.
J. HERSHEY, M.  D.
0.  J. WISTER, M. D.
W. N. JOHNSON, M. D.
E.  F. LEAKE, M. D.
A.  L. KENNEDY, M. D.
J.  M. CORSE, M. D.
ABRAHAM HELFFENSTEIN, M. D.
R.  W. RICHIE, M. D.
A.  FRICKE, M.D.
WM. ASHMEAD, M. D.
JOHN F.  LAMB, M. D.
H. D. BENNER,  M. D.
W. S. FORBES, M. D.
WINTHROP SERGEANT, M. D.
S.  C. HUSTON, M. D.
J.  HUGHES, M. D.
E.  SCHOLFIELD, M. D.
Northern Medical Association.
                   JOS. R. BRYAN,
L. P. GEBHARD, M. D., Vice-Pres.
WM. B.  ATKINSON, M. D., Secretary.
WM. MAYBURRY, M. D.,  Corr. Sec.
J. HENRY SMALTZ, M. D., Treas.
N. L. HATFIELD, M. D.
R. H. TOWNSEND, M. D.
J. J. WOODWARD, M. D.
A. M. SLOCUM, M. D.
JOHN RHEIN, M. D.
A. C. BOURNONVILLE, M. D.
J. M. EAGLETON, M. D.
L. CURTIS, M. D.
OWEN OSLER, M. D.
T. W. CRAIGE, M. D.
 M. D., President.
THEO. A. DEMME, M. D.
J.  S. HILL. M. D.
S.  N.  TROTH, M. D.
L.  S. SOMERS, M. D.
D.  GILBERT, M. D.
R.  S.  KENDERDINE,  M. D.
R.  Q.  SHELMERDINE, M. D.
M. M. LEVIS, M. D.
L.  D.  HARLOW, M. D.
R.  J. LEVIS, M. D.
W. L. ATLEE, M. D.
C.  WITTIG, M. D.
S.  UPDEGROVE, M. D.
B.  PRICE, M. D.
         Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania.
                 D. F. CONDIE, M. D., President

                Philadelphia Medical Society.

R. LA ROCHE, M. D., President.       JOHN NEILL, M. D., Vice-President.
                A. E. STOCKER, M. D., Secretary.
             Pathological Society of Philadelphia.
A. STILLE, M. D., President.          E. HARTSHORNE, M. D., Vice-Pres.
R. LA ROCHE, M. D., Vice-President.    J. DA COSTA, M. D., Secretary.
               JOHN K. KANE, Assistant Secretary. 
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Biological Department of the Acad, of Kat. Sciences of Philadelphia.

  JOSEPH LEIDY, M. D., President.      W. F. ATLEE, M. D., Recorder.
Profession at Large.
C. P. TURNER, M. D.
0. A. JUDSON, M. D.
L. D. BODDER, M. D.
JOHN GEGAN, M. D.
SAM. TUCKER, M. D.
AND. J. SMILEY, M. D.
C. S. WURTS, M. D.
JAS. W. BACON, M. D.
J R. McCLURG,  M. D.
E. SHIPPEN, M. D.
W. S.  SHIPPEN,  M. D.
C. S. BISHOP,  M. D.
ALEX. C. HART,  M. D.
G. J. CHAMBERLAIN, M. D.
JAS. DARRACH,  M. D.
A. C. DEAKYNE, M. D.
MORRIS J. ASCII, M. D.
W. N. HANDY, M. D.
N. C. REID, M. D.
WM. GRAHAM, M. D.
JOHN H. BRINTON, M. D.
ROBT. BOLLING, M. D.
WM. M.  BREED, M. D.
E. L. CARTER, M. D.
EDW. A. SPOONER, M. D.
GEO. B.  MOREHOUSE, M. D.
SAMUEL H. ASHTON, M. D.
JAS. D. MUNDY, M. D.
C. P. LA ROCHE, M. D.
W. MOSS, M. D.
J. K. T.  VAN  PELT, M. D.
J. M. BOISNOT, M. D.
J. C. COOPER, M. D.
S. H. HORNER, M. D.
DAVID BURPEE, M. D.
A. PENNEBAKER, M. D.
E. S. SHARP, M. D.
GEO. SPACKMAN, M. D.
ROBT. FOSTER, M. D.
EDWIN FUSSELL, M. D.
WM. GREGG, M. D.
SAM. P.  BROWN, M. D. 
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                   PROCEEDINGS

At a Meeting of the Medical Profession of New York.
  On the 24th of June, a meeting of medical gentlemen, interested in raising a
national testimonial for the benefit of the discoverer of Anaesthesia, was held at
the residence of Dr. Willaed Parkkr.
  The hour for organization having arrived, Dr. Parker addressed the meeting,
explained its objects, and proposed for President Dr. Joseph M. Smith ; which
nomination, having been  seconded, was voted  upon, and carried.  Dr. Gurdo.n
Buck was then  elected Corresponding  Secretary, and Drs. Bibbins and Thomas,
Recoiding Secretaries.
  The meeting being now duly organized, the business of the evening was called
for, and proceeded in this wise:—
  1st. Dr. John Watson read a list of the names of some of the most prominent,
benevolent, and  wealthy of the  citizens of New York, and proposed that each
gentleman present should charge himself with visiting such of them as he had
most influence with, and  raising as large subscriptions as possible to head the
list.  This was acted upon;  a  list of one hundred names  was read, and  the
duty of canvassing them assumed by various gentlemen composing the meeting.
  2d. Dr. Buck moved that a committee of medical men be appointed to confer
with gentlemen out of the profession as to the most efficient means for accom-
plishing the end in view.  This was seconded by Dr. Parker, and carried.  On
the Committee, the President then appointed
    Drs. John W. Francis,       Valentine Mott,      James R. Wood,
         Willard Parker,       James Minor,          Gurdon Buck,
         John Watson,           J. Marion Sims,        Jos. M.  Smith ;
and upon motion of Dr. Sayre, the President was added  to it.   This committee,
it was agreed, should  meet at the house of Dr. Parker at an early date.
  3d. It was  then moved by Dr. Parker, that a committee of one selected from
the Medical Board of each public charity of the city and its vicinity should be
appointed to wait upon the Boards directing the various  institutions, and solicit 
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donations in  behalf of the object which has called us together this evening.
This motion was seconded by Dr. Watson, and carried.  The following appoint-
ments were then made by the Chair:—
New York Hospital,
Bellevue      "
Emigrants1   "
St. Vincent's  "
St. Luke's
Jews'        "
Women's     "
Child's
Quarantine   "
New York Lying-in Asylum,
Brooklyn City Hospital,
Long Island College Hospital
Colored Home Hospital,
New York Eye Infirmary,
New York Ophthalmic Hospital,
Dr. Gurdon Buck.
 "  Jas. R. Wood.
 "  J. M. Carnochan.
 "  Wm. H. Van Buren.
 "  Benj. Ogden.
 "  J. Moses.
 "  J. M. Sims.
 "  G. T. Elliott, Jr.
 "  Elisha Harris.
 "  T. F. Cock.
 "  Hutchinson.
 "  Atres.
 "  FlTCH.
 "  Dubois.
 "  Garrish.
  4th.  It was moved by Dr. Watson, that the minutes of this meeting be trans-
mitted to Dr. Wm. T. G. Morton, by the Secretary, which was carried.
  No farther business appearing, the meeting then adjourned.
                                     JOSEPH M.  SMITH, M. D., President.
  Gurdon Buck, M.D., Corresponding Secretary.
  T. Gaillard Thomas, M. D., Recording Secretary. 
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SUBSCRIPTIONS
THAT  HEAD THE BOSTON AND NEW  YORK CONTRIBUTIONS.
Board of Ten  Governors for the City of New York
Massachusetts General Hospital,  .
Amos A. Lawrence,
John P. Cushing,  .
The Society of the New York Hospital
The Commissioners of Emigration of the State of New York,
James Brown,
John David Wolf,  .
Peter Lorillard,
James Lenox,
Benjamin L. Swan,
George T. Trimble,
Robert B. Minturn,
John C. Green,
Joseph Sampson,
James Donaldson,  .
Henry Chauncey  .
Charles A. Davis,  .
James Boorman,
George Griswold,
Morris Ketchum,  .
Robert Ray,
E. D. Morgan & Co.,
Josiah Macy & Sons,
Jonathan Thorn,  .
John Gardner,
Massachusetts Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary
Thomas B. Curtis, .
Nathaniel I. Bowditch,
Charles H. Mills,  .
John J. May,
David Sears,
Edward Wigglesworth,
James Bowden Bradlee
Josiah Bradlee,
James Lawrence,
John A. Lowell,
Thomas Lee,
J. M. Forbes,
Benj. H. Field,
Charles C. Goodhue,
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S. L. Snarez,
William E. Wilmarding,
Lorillard Spencer, .
Catharine L. Spencer,
Augustus Belmont,
Armstrong <fc Son, .
John Bridge,
B. M. Whitlock,
Wm. B. Astor,
Charles H. Marshall,
H. B. Claflin,
J. B. & W. W. Connel,
$100
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                      APPENDIX  A.

               THE NEW  YORK APPEAL.

   The Medical Profession have, from  the  earliest ages, felt the need of
some safe and efficient agent for annulling pain.
   The ordinary anodynes, long in use, have never supplied this defi-
ciency, and the various new agents which, within the past sixty or eighty
years, have been substituted for these,  have, until recently, proved either
too dangerous or too unreliable to be  employed in  general practice.
   Wine  and strong alcoholic drinks, given in such quantity as to induce
intoxication, were  occasionally employed, even before the commence-
ment of  the present century, for rendering  persons insensible to the pain
of surgical operations.  With  the same end in view, some  surgeons,
addressing the intellect,  were in the habit of exciting sudden fear, alarm,
or astonishment, to divert the attention of their patients.  Others, again,
resorted to  the  uncertain  and inexplicable influence of mesmerism.
Still  more  recently, the nitrous oxide gas, administered by  inhalation,
has, as originally suggested by Sir Humphrey Davy, been employed for
producing temporary loss of consciousness.   But this, too, after a fair
trial, has failed, and the hopes  founded upon it have  proved nugatory
and delusive.   So that, up to this point, the want of a reliable agent  for
rendering the human body insensible  to pain—a want so long felt, and
to obviate  which so many fruitless efforts had been  made—was still to
be supplied.  That want, however, has since been fully met.
   The first great triumph of placing in the hands of the profession  an
agent capable of rendering the patient safely, and at will, utterly insen-
sible  to the stroke of the surgeon's knife, was in detecting and estab-
lishing by  experiment the anaesthetic powers of sulphuric  ether.  For
this  discovery the world is indebted to  Dr.  Wm. T. G. Morton, of
Boston.
  Whatever may have been the steps preliminary to this remarkable
discovery, Dr. Morton's  claim  to it is established  beyond all  contro-
versy, and his merit in this respect, with those who have taken the trou-
ble to inform themselves on the  subject, can be no longer a question of
dispute.
  Nor can  the importance of his early investigations and experiments 
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under the guidance of Providence, in reference  to  the  properties and
uses of ether, be, at the present day, too highly estimated.   The intro-
duction of this agent as an anaesthetic, and of the various other agents
of the same class—as chloroform,  amyline, and the  like—to which this
directly led, has done more for the  mitigation of human suffering than
any other discovery, with the exception,  perhaps,  of vaccination,  for
which the world is indebted to medical science in either  ancient or
modern times.
  The  benefit derived from these newly discovered agents is not confined
to the hardier procedures of operative surgery.   They are now in hourly
requisition  in every  quarter of the civilized world  for  suspending  all
sense of suffering during the severest throes of childbirth, for arresting
convulsions, for relaxing spasms, for suspending volition and overcoming
muscular resistance  during the reduction of fractures and dislocations,
for allaying restlessness, wakefulness, and morbid excitability;  even  for
assuaging the pangs of approaching  dissolution, not to speak of the
almost innumerable minor uses to which they are applied, as  well in the
investigation as in the treatment of disease.
  In view of these advantages from the use of anaesthetics, we  feel that
Dr. Morton—the first to demonstrate their safety and efficiency, and to
establish them in general practice, has conferred a boon upon humanity
as imperishable as  it is  important, and one of such a character as to
entitle  him to rank among the benefactors of mankind.
  As members  of the medical profession in the city  of New  York, and
as physicians and surgeons to the various  hospitals  and  infirmaries in
this city and its vicinity, we therefore  rejoice to  learn that a movement
has been commenced by our professional brethren and other gentlemen
of Boston, to establish a national testimonial, by voluntary subscriptions,
for the benefit of Dr. Morton.  In this movement,  after full delibera-
tion and consultation among ourselves, we  are ready to participate in
accordance with the plan of those who originated it, which plan is  set
forth by the gentlemen  of Boston in the following terms:—
  We propose  that a national subscription be instituted, the  avails of
which shall be paid into the hands  of Thomas B. Curtis and Charles
H. Mills, Esquires, as Trustees—to be held, appropriated, and invested
upon such trusts, and for such uses, for the benefit  of Dr. Morton, as
the Trustees may determine.
  The following gentlemen, as  bankers, have agreed to receive for the
Trustees any sums  paid to them for the purpose above mentioned:__
  James Brown, New York.   Brown, Brothers & Co., Philadelphia.
  W. II Graham, Baltimore.  James Adger, Charleston.
              Samuel Nicholson & Co , New Orleans. 
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  Under governments more arbitrary and restrictive than our own, but
more capable of meeting the claims of science, the awards of merit are
not usually left, as with us, to the bounty of private individuals.  Dis-"
coveries and improvements of infinitely less importance  to science or
humanity, than that for which we are indebted to Dr. Morton, are at the
courts of Europe promptly met by national honors and emoluments.
  In our own country, it is  true, the National  Government, after  care-
fully investigating Dr. Morton's claims, has acknowledged the benefit
he has conferred upon it, but  has nevertheless failed,  as yet, to supply
the recompense.
  With  these remarks, we have the honor of recommending Dr.  Mor-
ton's claims for remuneration to the consideration of our fellow-citizens,
and of soliciting their subscriptions  in behalf of  the fund which it is
proposed to raise for his benefit.
  What the Government in this  respect has  failed to do, it  is to  be
hoped, for the credit of the American  name, and from the noble indi-
vidual examples already set, that the discerning and liberal people of the
United States will not leave entirely unaccomplished.
                  PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS

         Of the New York Hospital and Bloomingdale Asylum.
THOS. COCK, M. D., Consulting Phys.   | ALFRED C. POST, M. D., Conslt'g Sur.
JOS. M. SMITH, M. D., Attending Phys.   GURDON BUCK, M. D., Attending Sur.
JOHN H. GRISCOLM, M. D.,     "    • JOHN WALSON, M. D.,
HENRY D. BULKLEY, M. D.,     "     TIIADDEUS M. IIALSTED,
THOS. F. COCK, M. D.,          "    !  M. D.,
VALENTINE MOTT, M. D., Conslt'g Sur.  THOS. M. MARKOE, M. D.,
ALEX. H. STEVENS, M. D.,      "    , WM. H.  VAN BUREN, M. D.,
RICH'D  K. HOFFMAN, M. D.,    "    ! WILLARD PARKER, M. D.,

                  PHYSICIANS AND SURGKOXS

Of Bellevue  Hospital, and of the other Institutions under the charge of
              the Board of Governors of the Alms-Hottse.

JOHN W. FRANCIS, M. D., Conslt'g Phy.  ALEX. H. STEVENS, M. D., Cons'g  Sur.
ISAAC WOOD M D.,           "     JAMES  R. WOOD, M. D., Attending  Sur.
R  W. McCREADY, M. D.,' Attn'g Phys.   CHAS. D. SMITH, M. D.,
JOHN T. METCALFE, M. D.,     "    , LEWIS A. LAYRE, M. D.,
ISAAC E. TAYLOR,  M. D.,       "     J. J. CRANE, M. D.,
B. FORDYCE BARKER, M.D.,    "    I W. PARKER, M. D.,
GEO. T. ELLIOTT, M. D.,             ' STEPHEN SMITH, M. D.,
VALENTINE MOTT, M. D., Cons'g Sur.  i

                 Nursery Hospital, RandalVs Island.
            HENRY N.  WHITTLESEY, M. D., Resident Physician. 
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            Quarantine Hospital, Staten  Island.

    R. N. THOMPSON, M. D., Health Officer Port of N.w York.
    THEO.  WATSON, M. D., Ass't Physician, Quar. Hospital.


               Blackicell's  Island Hospital*.

(Penitentiary Hospital, Small-pox Hospital, and Alms-House.)

         WM.  II. SANGER, M. D., Resident Physician.
PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS

   Xcir  Tori- Lunatic Asylum.

  M. II. RANXEY, Resident Physician.
J. M. CARNOCIIAN, M. D., Sur.-in-Chief.
T. (.'. SKLDEN, M. D., Surgeon.
II. Ut'LEKE, M.D.,
Of the State Emigrant Asylum.

                HENRY B. FAY. M. D., Plivs -in-Chief.
                FRANCIS SIMROCK, M. D., Physician.
                G. FORD, M. D.,
St.  Vincent's  Hospital.
THUS E. BURTSELL. M.D., Att'gPhys.
JAMES  O RORKE, M D.,
WM. H.  VAN BUREX, M. !>., Att'g Sur.
ALEX'R B. MOTT, M. D., Attend'g Sur.
THOS. C. FINNELL, M. D.,
                          ,S7.  Luke's Hospital.

                D. E. EIGINBKODT, M. D., Resident Physician.

                            Jews' Hospital.

V. MOTT, M. D..    Consulting Surgeon.  I J. MOSES,  M. D., Attending Surgeon.
W. PARKER, M. D.,             "     | C. R. CILMAN, M. D., Attending  Phys.
T. M. MARKoE. M. D., Attending Surg.  I W. H. MAXWELL. M. D.,
ALEX'R B. MOTT, M. D.,        "     |

                      New York Eye Infirmary.
A. DUBOIS, M. D.,            Surgeon.
GERDOX BECK, M. !>.,          "
T. M. HALSTED, M. D.,
C. R. AGNEW. M. D.,          Surgeon.
F.  J. BT MSTEAD, M. D., Assisting Sur.
J. II. II1NTON, M. D.,
                    New York Ophthalmic Hospital.

MARK STEPHENSON, M. D.,  Surgeon.  | JOHN P. GARRISH, M. D., Surgeon.

                        Colored Home Hospital.

G. A. SABINE. M. D., Consulting Surg'n. I J. S. THEBAUD, M.D., Consulting Sur
W. PARKER. M. D.,             "     | J. D. FITCH, M. D., Resident Physician.

                           Women's Hospital.

                     J. MARION SIMS, M. D., Surgeon.

                     Yew  York Lying-in Asylum.

T. F. -COCK, M. D., Consulting  Physician  I G. T. ELLIOTT, M. D., Consulting Phvs
J. T. METCALFE, M. D.(        "                                   8   ' 
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                    Nursery and Child's Hospital.

G. T. ELLIOTT, M. D., Attending Phys.  I GEO. A. PETERS, M. D., Attending Phy
H. C. COX, M. D.,              "     | F. U. JOHNSTON, M. D.,         "  '


                         Demilt Dispensary.

JNO. 0. BRONSON, M. D., House Phys'n.   I. CUMMINGS, M. D., Ass't Visit'g Phys
WM. B.  BIBBINS, M. D., Visiting Phys.   W. R. DONAGHE, M. D., Attending Sur
D. L. CONANT, M. D., Attending Surg'n.  i ELISHA HARRIS, M. D., Attend'g Phy
T. G. THOMAS, M.D., Attending Phys'n.   JNO. A. BARTHOLF, M. D.,
GOUV. M. SMITH, M.D.,
New York Academy of Medicine.
JOHN WATSON, M. D., Vice-President.
W. II. VAN BUREN, M. D.,
S. CONANT FOSTER, M. D.,      "
C. E. ISAACS, M. D.,
C. T. IIEYWOOD, M. D., Recording Sec'y.
S. T. HUBBARD, M. D., Dom. Cor. Sec'y.
JAS. 0. POND, M. D., Treasurer.
SAMUEL ROTTEN. M. D., Librarian.
W. W. BLAKEMAN,  M. D.,    Trustee.
ED. L. BEADLE, M. D.,
BENJ. OGDEN, M. D.,
F. U. JOHNSTON,  M. D., Assistant Sec'y.
B. F.  BARKER, M. D., Resident Fellow.
GURDON BUCK, M. D.,
II. D. BULKLEY, M.  D.,          "
F. J. BUMSTEAD, M. D.,
THOS. COCK, M. D.,
THOS. F. COCK, M.D.,
J. J. CRANE, M. D.,             "
GEO. T. ELLIOTT, M.D.,
T. C. FINNELL, M D.,          "
J. W. FRANCIS, M. D.,
J. P. GARRISH, M. D.,
C. R. GILMAN, M.D.,
J. II. GRISCOM, M, D.,
T. M. HALSTED, M. D.,
E. HARRIS, M.D.,              "
J. H. HINTON, M.  D.,
E. LEE JONES,  M. D.
B. W. McCREADY, M. D.,
W. PARKER, M. D.,
G. A. SABINE, M.D.,
L. A. SAYRE. M. D.,
J. M. SIMS, M. D.,
C. D. SMITH, M.D.,
M. SMITH, M.D.,
MARK STEPHENSON, M.D.,
J. E. TAYLOR, M.D.,
T. G. THOMAS, M. D.,
W. H. VAN BUREN,  M. D.,
New York Medical College.
HORACE GREEN, M. D.,
                 President of Faculty.
E. II. DAVIS, M. D., Prof, of Mat. Med.
B. F. BARKER, M. D., Prof, of Obstetrics.
R. OGDEN DOREMUS, M. D.,
                Professor of Chemistry.
R, M. D. President.
ISAAC WOOD, M. D., Resident Fellow.
J. R. WOOD, M. D.,
JAS. ANDERSON, M. D.,
E. ACOSTA, M. D.,
E. H. DAVIS, M. D.,
A. K. GARDNER, M.D.,
ED. DELAFIELD, M. D.,
JOEL FOSTER, M. D.,
J. C. BEALES, M. D.,
R. W. BARRY, M. D.,
H. W. BROWN. M.D.,
J. C. FORRESTER, M. D.,
H. S. DOWNS, M. D.,
F. S. EDWARDS, M. D.,
F. ELLIOTT, M. D.,
R. PENNELL, M. D.,
T. W. RICHARDS, M.D.,
A. UNDERHILL, M. D.,
JOS. WOOSTER, M. D.,
J. W. S. GOULEY, M. D.,
E. II. JANES, M. D.,
C. HENSCHEL, M. D.,
A. GESCHEIDT, M. D.,
A. N. GUNN, M. D.,
WM. H. MAXWELL, M. D.,
E. HALL, M. D.,
jared linsley, m. d.,
john McClelland, m.d.,
wm. minor, m. d.,
jos. martin, m.d.,
j. w. ranney, m.d.,
john priestley, m. d.,
alex. h. stevens, m. d.,
w. c livingston, m. d.,
stephen smith, m. d.,
geo. lewis, m. d.,
jas. d. fitch, m. d.,
charles a.  budd, m. d.,
n. c. husted, m.d.,
th's w. horsfield, m. d.,
J. M. CARNOCHAN, M. D., Prof, of Sur.
H. G. COX, M. D., Prof, of The. and Prac.
E. R. PEASELEE, M. D., Prof, of Physiol.
CHAS. A. BUDD, M. D.,
                Lecturer on Obstetrics. 
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New  York Pathological Society.
E. R. PEASELEE, M.D., President.
E. HARRIS, M. D., Vice President.
E. LEE JONES, M. D., Secretary.
W. B. BIBBINS, M. D., Treasurer.
T. C. FIXNELL, M. D., Curator.
Brooklyn City Hospital.
JAMES CRANE,  M. D., Attending Phys.
H. S. SMITH. M.  D.,
GEORGE  COCHRAN, M. D.,      "
C. E. ISAACS, M. D., Attending Surgeon.
DANIEL  E. KISSAM, Attending Surgn
J. C. HUTCHINSON,
JOS. M. MINOR, M. D.,
      College of Physicians and Surgeons.

THOMAS COCK, M. D., President.
ED. DELAFIELD,  M. D., Emeritus Professor of Obstetrics.
WILLARD PARKER, M. D., Professor of Surgery.
JOSEPH M. SMITH, M. D., Professor of Materia Medica.
C. R. OILMAN, M. D., Professor of Obstetrics.
       Cniversity Medical College.

WM. H. VAN BUREN, Professor of Anatomy.
ALFRED C. POST, M. D., Professor of Surgery.
J T. METCALFE, M. D., Professor of Practice. 
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                      APPENDIX   B.

                  THE BOSTON  APPEAL.

                            To tlie Public.
   The  power of etheric vapors to produce  a safe insensibility to pain
 during  surgical  operations, and on other occasions of great physical suf-
 fering,  is one of the most beneficent discoveries that has been conferred
 upon the human race.  It is  generally conceded that Dr. W. T. G.
 Morton, of Boston, was instrumental in presenting this fact to the world.
 Nearly the whole of the Medical Profession [see page 21 et seq.~] of this
 city, in the midst of whom the discovery was made, together with other
 bodies  of competent  persons,  who have  investigated  its origin, have,
 after careful  scrutiny,  concurred in assigning this merit to Dr. Morton
 —and public opinion has long since affirmed their verdict.
   It is not necessary to enter in detail into the circumstances which  have
 prevented Dr.  Morton from receiving any pecuniary  benefit from this
 discovery.
   The  fact is certain,  that Dr. Morton has  been an instrument, under
 Divine  Providence, of  introducing to the world one of the  most remark-
 able discoveries of  this or any other age,  and that he has received no
 reward for it but the consciousness of having done so.
   We are sure that we interpret the feelings  of thousands, when we say
 that a substantial national memorial should be presented to Dr. Morton
   How often has the  poor sufferer risen from  beneath  the surgeon's
 knife, with nerves untouched by the slightest sensation of the torture
 that would otherwise have been his!  How often has the mother passed
 in unconscious  slumber, through "the  perils  of childbirth," to wake to
 her new happiness, without one memory  of  its agonies, and  breathed,
 with the prayer  of thanksgiving to God, a thought of him—to her, per-
 haps, the unknown  discoverer—whose happy conception,  perseverance
 and courage, first established the astonishing  fact, that  the human frame
 may suffer all the conditions, and not  one of the sensations of pain !
 What has already occurred throughout the whole world, since this dis-
covery was made—in hospitals, in private chambers of the sick, on fields
of battle,  on the ocean, and on the land—wherever humanity undergoes 
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the "ills  that flesh  is heir to"—is  to occur through countless ages,
while the  race is  left upon earth!  And  yet, year rolls after year, and
the spontaneous  gratitude that is  felt  and uttered,  whenever and
wherever  this great  discovery is used or contemplated,  finds no per-
manent voice, because  no efforts are made to concentrate and direct it
to its object.
   We propose that such efforts be now made.  We think that the  people
of the United States, acting individually, should do what their govern-
ment  has  neglected,  or been able to do.   National  testimonials, esta-
blished by the voluntary contributions of individuals, have been adopted
in all  countries, to mark the public sense of services to the  human family,
especially  when such  services have reflected honor and distinction upon
the country where they have been performed.
   We propose that a national subscription be instituted, the avails of
which shall be paid into the hands of Thomas B. Curtis  and Charles
II. Mills, Esquires, as  Trustees—to be held, appropriated, and invested
upon  such trusts,  and for such uses, for the benefit of Dr. Morton, as
the Trustees may  determine.
  The following gentlemen, as bankers, have agreed to receive for the
Trustees any sums paid to them for the purpose above mentioned:—
  James Brown,  New  York.  Brown, Brothers & Co.,  Philadelphia.
  W.  II. Graham, Baltimore.  James Adger, Charleston.
             Samuel  Nicholson &  Co., New Orleans.
JAMES JACKSON, M. D.
JACOB BIGELOW, M. I).
S. D. TOWNSEND, M. D.
JOHN JEFFRIES, M.D.
EDWARD REYNOLDS,  M. D.
JOHN' HOMAXS, M. D.
M. S. PERRY, M I).
U. W. HOLMES, M. D.
JOHN WARE, M. D.
GEORGE HAYWARD, M. D.
J. MASON WARREN, M. D.
HENRY J. BIGELOW, M. D.
CHARLES G. PUTNAM, M. D.
RICHARD H. DANA, Jr., Esq.
ALEXANDER II. VINTON, D. D.
S  K. LOTIIROP, D. D.
JOHN B. FITZPATRICK,
               Bishop of Boston.
WILLIAM II. PRESCOTT, Historian.
N. ADAMS, D. D.
Hon. RUFUS CHOATE.
CHARLES P. CURTIS, Esq.
F. C. LORING, Esq.
Hon. G. S. HILLARD.
WILLIAM DEHON, Esq.
BENJAMIN  PEIRCE,
       Professor Harvard University.
F. D. HUNTINGTON, D. D.
HENRY W. LONGFELLOW,
       Professor Harvard University.
JARED SPARKS,
       President Harvard University.
R. B. FORBES, Esq.
P. W. CHANDLER, Esq.
ALEXANDER H. RICE, Mayor of Boston.
Hon. ROBERT C. WINTHROP. 
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                         MEMORIAL


                                  OF THE


 MEMBERS OF THE  MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SOCD3TY.


 To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United

   States,  in  Congress assembled:

   The undersigned hereby testify to your honorable body, that in their

 opinion Dr. William T.  G.  Morton first proved  to the world that ether

 would produce insensibility to the pain of surgical operations, and that

 it could be used with safety.  In  their  opinion, his fellow-men owe a

 debt to him for this knowledge.   Wherefore, they respectfully ask a

 recognition by Congress of his services to his country and mankind :—

 JOHN C. WARREN,  M D.,  Senior Surgeon Massachusetts General Hospital, and late
      President American Medical Society, and Emeritus Professor of Anatomy of
      Harvard University.
 GEORGE HAY WARD, M. D., President Massachusetts Medioal Society, and  Surgeon
      Massachusetts General  Hospital.
 J. MASON  WARREN, M. D., Surgeon Massachusetts General Hospital.
 S. D. TOWNSEND, M.D.,
 S. PARKMAN, M. D.,
 HENRY G. BIGELOW, M. D., Surgeon Massachusetts General Hospital, and Professor
      of Surgery Harvard University.
 HENRY G. CLARK, M. D., Surgeon Massachusetts General Hospital, and City Phy-
      sician.
 JACOB BIGELOW, M. D., Professor Materia  Medica Harvard University, and  Presi-
      dent  of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Physician to Massachu-
      setts  General Hospital.
 OLIVER W. HOLMES, M. D., Professor of Anatomy Harvard University.
 HENRY I. BOWDITCH, M. D.. Physician Massachusetts General Hospital.
 D. HUMPHREYS STORER, M.D.,    "                  "
 M. S. PERRY, M.D.,
 JAMES JACKSON, M. D.,      )
 GEORGE C. SHATTUCK, M. D., [ Consulting Physicians and Surgeons Massachusetts
 JOHN JEFFRIES, M. D.,       f  General Hospital.
 EDWARD REYNOLDS, M. D.,  )
EDWARD REYNOLDS, M.D., )
W. HOOPER, M. D.,           [.Massachusetts Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary.
GEORGE A. BETHUNE, M. D., J
JOHN L. FOX, M. D., Surgeon United States Navy. Chelsea Naval Hospital. 
28
Members of Massachusetts  Medical Society.
Walter Channing,
John   Homans,  President
  Suffolk District Medical
  Socirti/.
Z. B. Adams,
John C. Harden,
John Ware,
Ephraim Buck,
George Bartlett,
Jonas II. Lane,
Anson  Hooker,
Henry  Dyer,
Augustus A. Gould,
Charles Gordon,
Joseph S. Jones,
Samuel Kneeland, Jr.,
T. Fletcher Oakes,
George Hubbard,
Charles W. Moore,
Richard H. Suiter,
Fvtche Edward Oliver,
William J. Dale,
William Edward Coale,
James  W.  Stone,
B. W.  Newel I,
Enu.cis A. Willard,
William Huwes,
Cbnrles Mifflin,
J. Wippasne,
Abraham A. Watson,
Aaron  P. Richardson,
Henry A. Ward,
William Bowen  Morris,
Jnraes  B. Gregorson,
William W. Morland,
M. C.  Greene,
Horace Stncey,
Franklin F. Patch,
Samuel L. Abbott,
John H. Diz,
James Aver,
Joseph J. Fales,
P. Wilbrand,
Ezra Bartlett,
S. F. Parcher,
James Hyndman,
Henry S. Lee,
E. D. Cleveland,
John Stuvens,
Ira W. Tobie,
J. Everett Herrick,
X. C. Stevens,
Enock C. Rolfe,
Henry Willard,
A. Alexander,
D. McGowan,
Thomas R. Owens,
Luther Clark,
Charles T. Hoffenvane,
Samuel Morrill,
Silas Durkee,
George Stevens  Jones,
Je>se Chickering,
J. A.  Tarbell,
I George H. Lyman,
| Henry W. Williams,
 J. Randolph Lincoln,
I George Derby,
 Warren J. Whitney,
! Francis Minot,
 D. D. Slade,
 W. E. Townsend,
i John B. Alley,
 George H. Gay,
 Luther Parks, jr.,
 William G. Wheeler,
 F. H.  Gray,
 James F. Harlow,
 George Russell,
; Charles E. Ware,
 E. W. Blake,
 Edward II.  Clark,
 Samuel Gregg,
 E. D. Miller,
 C. G. Putnam,
 Charles A.  Phelps,
 John Odin, jr.,
 Joseph Reynolds,
 George Hayward, jr.,
I Henry Osgood Stone.
 G. Newton Thomson,
i J. M. Phipps,
 Abner Phelps,
 Josiah Curtis,
 E. D. G.  Palmer,
 Daniel V. Folts,
 R. L. Hinckley,
 J. W. Hinckley,
 M. B. Leonard,
 P. E. Molloy,
 Henry Bryant,
 Charles E. Buckingham,
 J. W. Warren, jr.,
 D. D.  Smith,
 George Tower,
 William Read,
I J. F. W. Lane,
 Const.  B. 0 Donnell,  M. R.
   C. S. E.,
 John S. H. Fogg,
 Edmund  T. Eastman,
j William S.  Coffin,
 John C. Sharp,
 Alexander S.  Butler,
 Benjamin B. Appleton,
 M. Mattson,
 David Thayer,
 J. C. Sanborn,
 E. A. Kittredge.

       CHAKLESTOWN
 E. E.  Braun,
 A. J.  Bellows,
 Benjamin Seabury,
 George W. Otis, jr.,
 Charles H. Allen,
 A. C. Webber,
 I. P. Alden,
W. W. Wellington
H. L. Chase,
Charles F. Foster,
A. J. Cummings,
Thomas J. Stevens,
Hutchinson Germaine,
Alexander Poole,
James B. Forsyth,
John Toomy.

        CHELSEA.
William Ingalls, Physician
  and Surgeon U. S. Ma-
  rine Hospital.
A. L  Peirson,
William Mack,
George Choate,
William Henry Prince,
J. (J.  Wood,
James Stone, jr.,
E. B.  Pierson,
Georgf C.  S. Choate,
George A. Perkins,
H. Wheatland,
Samuel Johnson,
Edward A. Holyoke.
 Alfred Baylies,
 H. B. Hubbard,
 Horace Bowen,
 Ebenezer Dawes,
 William Dickinson,
 Daniel King,
 George Leonard.

|       NEWBUKYPOHT.
 E. Cross,
 S. M. Gale.
 A. S. Adams,
 J. T. Galloupe,
 Daniel Perley,
 D. A. Johnson,
 E. Porter Eastman,
 James M. Nye,
 John Renton,
 Nathaniel Ruggles,
 Charles M. Weeks,
 Edward Newhall.

       WORCESTER.
 Henry Clarke,
 Samuel Flagg,
 George A. Bates,
 Charles W. Whitcomb,
 Joseph Sargent,
 Orauiel Martin,
; William Workman, 
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Members of Massachusetts Medical Society__Continued.
Rufus Woodward,
Henry Sargent,
A. Goulet,
P. B. Mignoult,
Benjamin Heywood,
John E. Hathaway.

      SPRINGFIELD.
James M. Smith,
Edwin Seeger,
N. Adams,
A. S. McClean,
Alfred Lambert,
C. C. Chaffee,
II. A. Hamilton,
Henry B. Vaille,
D. C. Perkins.

       PITTSF1ELD.
II. H. Childs, President of
  Berkshire Medical Insti-
  tution.
N. S. Barnes,
0. S. Root,
Frank A. Cady,
0. E. Brewster,
Nathaniel Foote,
Avery Williams,
A. N. Allen,
L. F. Humeston,
Willard Clough,
Clark F. Hall,
N. J. Wilson.

     NEW BEDFORD.
T. S. Mayhew,
Johnson Clark,
John H. Jennings,
William A. Gordon,
Elijah Colby,
C. D. Stickney,
John Howell Mackie,
Paul Spooner.

       FALL RIVER.
James W. Hartly,
P. A. Smith,
Jerome Dwelly,
Foster Hooper,
E. T. Learned.
 John 0. Green,
; Henry Whiting,
 J. P. Jewett,
 J. D. Pillsbury,
I Elisha Huntington,
 John W. Graves,
 Charles A. Savory,
 Joel Spalding,
| David Wells,
 Benjamin Skelon,
I H. Pillsbury,
1 P. P.  Campbell,
 L. B.  Morse,
 Charles A. Davis,
 Ployer G. Kittredge,
 Daniel Holt,
 Daniel Mowe,
 J. W. Scribner.

         LAWRENCE,
 George W. Sanborn,
 William D. Lamb,
 David Dana,
 J. H  Morse.

      SOUTH ANDOVER.
 James Howarth,
 W. H. Kimball.

         DEDHAM.
 Jeremy Stimson,
 D. P.  Wight,
 H. F. Spear.

         FITCHBURG.
 Thos. R. Boutelle,
 Levi Pillsbury,
 T. W. Wadsworth,
 W. M. Barrett,
 Henry M. Linrad.

         PLYMOUTH.
 James L Hunt,
 Winslow Warren,
 Benjamin Hubbard,
 Timothy Gordon.
Ezra Stephenson,
Robert T. P. Fiske.

         QUINCY.
Ebenezer Woodward,
William G.  Pattee,
W. Goddard.
Andrew Nicholls,
Joseph Osgood,
David A. Grosvenor,
George Osgood.

      MARBLEHEAD.
James C. Briggs,
Chandler Flagg,
Daniel Gill.

        BEVERLY.
W. C. Boyden,
Charles Haddock,
Ingalls Kittredge.

       GLOUCESTER.
Isaac P. Smith,
C. H. Hildreth,
George W. Smith.

        ROCKPORT.
Benjamin Haskell,
Lemuel Gott,
Oscar D. Abbott.

         NEWTON.
Henry Bigelow,
Cyrus K. Bartlet.

       FRAMINGHAM.
Simon Whitney,
Allston W. Whitney.

         MILFORD.
Francis Leland,
Theodore 0.  Cornish.