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Anesthesia, history

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    Historical memoranda relative to the discovery of etherization, and to the connection with it of the late Dr. William T.G. Morton / prepared by the committee of citizens of Boston chosen to raise a Morton testimonial fund.

    | Date: 1871
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    Some pioneers of anaesthetics : in honour of the Victoria Dental Hospital, September 30th, 1902, and in memory of September 30th and October 16th, 1846, Boston, U.S.A.

    Owens College. | Date: 1902
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    Report : the Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, to whom was referred the petition of Dr. William T.G. Morton, asking compensation for the discovery and gift to his country and mankind of the application of ethereal vapor as a safe and practical anaesthesia, or pain-subduing agent.

    United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia. | Date: [1863]
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    Early history of the anaesthetic discovery, or, Painless surgical operations : with letters to and from Sir James Y. Simpson, Dr. Benjamin W. Richardson, and Dr. Henry Bennet : Boston versus Hartford / by Robert Hanham Collyer.

    Collyer, Robert Hanham. | Date: 1877
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    The influence of anaesthesia on the surgery of the nineteenth century / by J. Collins Warren.

    Warren, John Collins, 1842-1927. | Date: 1900

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