Children, for the very able, interesting, and scientific Course of Lectures, by him delivered 

 during the present session, and as a feeble testimonial of our high regard for the interest h 

 has evinced in our welfare and improvement, and for his splendid talents as a teacher. 



JAMES WHEELER, President. 



T. F. ROBINSON, 



H. ROBINSON, 



RANSFORD ROGERS, } Vice President*. 



E. M. GLEESON, 



DANIEL MEEKER.* 



cretarie, 



rect medical knowledge have been very great, far superior to those of most physic 

 country ; and I consider him one of the most able and accomplished phys 



)HN STEW 



From Rev. John Stewart, Presiding Elder in the Methodist Episcopal Church. 



"Hocking City, Ohio, April 29, 1838. 

 " To whom it may concern : 

 " This is to certify that I have been, for many years, intimately acquainted with John C. 

 Bennett, M. D., who was, in 1825, my family physician. His advantages for acquiring cor- 



ns in this 

 surgeons. 

 ART." 



Appointment by the Governor. "Brigadier-General John C. Bennett, of the First Brigade 

 of Dragoons, (and formerly Surgeon-in-Chief of the Second Division of Infantry,) to be Q,uar- 

 ter-Master-General of the Militia of the State of Illinois, from the 20th day of July, 1840. 



" In making the above appointment, Governor Carlin has selected an able, energetic, and 

 efficient officer. The duties that will devolve on him perhaps no man in the State is better 

 qualified to fill, and we have no doubt he will render due justice to the office which he has 

 been selected to superintend." Wabash (Illinois) Republican. 



CHLOROFORM. We are permitted by Mr. Wm. P. Little, the able manufacturing 

 chemist, of Boston, to publish the following extract of a letter from him to Dr. Bennett, of 

 Plymouth, in relation to the entire safety of pure chloroform in all cases in which it has been 

 correctly applied. We procured for Dr. Bennett some of the first chloroform manufactured 

 in this country, after the discovery of its anssthetic properties, and it will be recollected by 

 our readers that the Dr. has maintained from the beginning, that "pure chloroform, appro- 

 priately administered, is, fron. its very nature, as harmless as water," and the following 

 corroboratory statement from one of the most able chemists of our country must be highly 

 satisfactory to all persons interested in its use. The important question, as to the safety ami 

 utility of this agent, appears to be, " Is the chloroform pure?" 



"Boston, Jan. 11, 1849. 

 " Doct. J. C. Bennetf Dear Sir : 



* * * Since the discovery of the use of chloroform as an anaesthetic agent 

 by Prof. Simpson, w have manufactured and sold upwards of five thousand pounds. This 

 immense quantity hoi. been distributed throughout the world, and must necessarily have been 

 used by all classes of persons, both competent and incompetent, and we have never heard of 

 a sinsrle instance where it has produced injurious effects. You can judge, from your great 

 experience in its use, whether we speak correctly as regards the safety of its administration. 

 We believe you had the first ounce we sold out of Boston, and we find, by referring to our 

 books, that you have had nearly twenty pounds. 



" One great reason why^he use of our chloroform has been attended with such happy 

 results is, that we never sell 'any but what we know to be pure. AH the chloroform of our 

 manufacture is chemically tested before being sold, and can be depended upon for safety 

 and efficiency. 



" We have had numerous samples of impure chloroform sent to us for examination from 

 various parts of the country, particularly from the Western States, and we do not wonder 

 at the accidents which have arisen from the use of such vile compounds, prepared probably 

 by persons totally ignorant of the first principles of chemistry. 



" Yours respectfully, 



WM. B. LITTLE & Co." 

 Old Colony Memorial of Jan. 20, 1849. 



Doctor Bennett recently extracted thirty teeth for a lady of this town, under the influence 

 of chloroform, thirteen of which were removed at one sitting, without pain. This is the 

 second entire set he has extracted within a few days. The doctor has certainly had most 

 ample experience in the use of chloroform, with uniform success. Old Colony Memorial 

 of March 17, 1849. 



Chloroform and its uses. We have received from Wm. B. Little & Co., Chemists and 

 Druggists, of this city, a treatise by J. Y. Simpson, M. D., a very able author, upon the " Su- 

 uerinduction of Anaesthesia, in Natural and Morbid Parturition ;" a work which may be read 

 by everybody with interest. The discovery of any a?ent possessing the power to annul the 

 sense of pain in the midst of surgical operations, is riot only an important achievement in 

 medical science, but is a blessing to mankind which cannot be over appreciated. 



Dr. Meeker is now Professor of Anntomy and Sr.rsrery in La Porte University. 



