A representation to Congress covering... petitions, memorials, resolutions, & letters : ... urging compensation for the use of anaesthetics in the Army and Navy. Submitted to the 38th Congress.

Morton Testimonial Association

Date:: [1864]

Credit: A representation to Congress covering... petitions, memorials, resolutions, & letters : ... urging compensation for the use of anaesthetics in the Army and Navy. Submitted to the 38th Congress. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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$PETITIONS. To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the U. S. in Congress assembled : The undersigned hereby testify to your honorable body, that in almost the unanimous opinion of the Medical Profession of America, as well as of our National Government and competent Institutions, Dr. ]\Iorton was the first to discover or demonstrate the great physiological fact that the human system Is capable of being placed safely in a condi- tion In which It becomes Insensible to pain; and to prove the practicabil- ity and safety of Etherization, which directly led to the use of Chloroform and other Anassthetic agents for the relief of human suffering, they beg leave earnestly to represent to Congress, that, in their opinion, the intro- duction of Anxsthetlcs would have been worth millions of money to the country during the present war could it have been no otherwise obtained ; and that it Is due to the character of a great people, whose soldiers have been so signally benefited by this discovery, that their representatives should express to Dr. Morton their gratitude for the benefit he has con- ferred upon his fellow countrymen, as well as upon all mankind, by some testimonial of a value adequate to the benefits which have been conferred, and the resources of the nation which has received them.* . MAINE. Bowdoin College, 1864 Leonard Woods, D.D., Frcsident of Medical Faciiliy. P. A. Chadbourne, M.D., Professor in Bowdoin College. William G. Robinson, M.D., Israel T. Dana, M.D., Isaac Lincoln, M.D., John D. Lincoln, M.D., Thomas Frye, M. D. Joseph Farwcll, Maynard Sumner, Francis Cobb, W. H. Titcomb, Peter Thachcr, Geo. W. Kimball, Jr., Deputy Collector, G. W. Kimball, L. W. H(^es, C. K. Mallard, A. H. Kimball, J. Wakefield, Chas. N. Germaine, M. D. A. G. Spear, Nath'l Jones, M. C. Andrews, Postmt'r, C. P. Fessenden, S. N. Hatch, Ealph P. E. Thacher, P. T. Presoott, M. D. James Walsh, H. H. Ulman, I. K. Kimball, Geo. W. Thacher, John Merrill, M. D. M. W. Farwell, M. D. Nath'l Meservey, E. P. Chase, Freeman Harden, Rockland, Me., 1864. 0. J. Conant, B. J. Booker, Wm. J. Bond, Wm. Beattie, Leander Weeks, T. K. Osgood, T. E. Simonton, F. J. Simonton, Seth E. Benson, jr., Ephm. Hall, D. D. Fuller. W. 0. Fuller, Moody E. Thurlow, Wm. T. Hovey, Geo. S. Wiggin. o This Petition is signed by the Professors of thirty Colleges, not received in time to print.$