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of the Union, where they believed ether had been employed to the 

 greatest extent. They have received tables from the Massachusetts 

 Genera] Bospital, from the New York Hospital, and from the 

 public clinics of the University of Pennsylvania and Jefferson 

 Medical College, Philadelphia, which are herewith presented. <~ 

 Appendix C— 2., C— 3., C— 4. and <\— 5.) 



Sour committee are aware that etherization has been practiced in 

 the clinical dispensaries and hospitals of other cities of the Union, 

 and that it has heeii used extensively in the private practice of many 

 American surgeons; hut the pftrlod allotted to the preparation of 

 this report, and the desire not to extend it beyond reasonable limits, 

 have prevented the collection of all the facts which might have been 



derived from these Sources. 



Before introducing the tahles referred to, your committee will, 

 however, communicate some valuahlc information, which is con- 

 tained in the Medical Journal- of the country; or, which has b 



communicated to them by letter, in which the experience of several 

 American surgeons, not connected with the institutions referred to, 



is detailed. 



Dr. Paul F. Eve, of the Medical College of Georgia, reports ] m 2 



is of important surgical operations performed by him upon 



patients under the influence of ether and chloroform in the months 



of January, Fehruary and March 1848; one case of amputation at 



shoulder-joint, and one of lithotomy are included in this number. 



Complete insensibility was induced in all the cases except two. 



Those in which ether was used, required more time to produce the 

 effect, hut it was equally complete. The chloroform acted promptly 



and efficiently in all the cases hut one. Dr. Eve IS a warm advo- 

 cate for etherization in Burgery, ami prefers chloroform to ether.* 



In the city of Louisville, the -eat <.»f a large and thriving medical 

 school, ether and chloroform have been extensively used during the 

 I isl winter, and we learn from the Western Journal of Medicine 

 and Surgery, that Dr. Gross, the Professor of Surgery in the 

 school there, has frequently employed these agents in important 

 operations with gratifying results. 



In Chicago, Illinois, the location of the Rush Medical College, 

 etherization has been recently employed hy Dr. Urainard, the Pro- 

 fessor of Surgery, with happy effects, in several surgical opera- 

 tions. 



• See Soullf ! April. 



