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found much favor abroad, and we give - following from among the 
testimonials which have senbdindl én us. It is cited from the Athenzeum, 
- for Jan. 30, 1847, and credited by this en: to the Lancet, Jan. 16 and 
— 28, the Medical Gazette, Jan. 22, and Medical Times, Jan. 16 and 23. 
_ » The practicability and utility of the American discovery of the em- 
ployment of the vapor of ether in surgical operations is no longer a 
matier of doubt. Since our first notice of the subject, ae of op- 
erations have been performed in this country without pain. would 
point out, + Ae ton the very different nature of the evidence on 
Ti 
phantasies regard the state induced by the action of ether as analogous 
tothe mesmeric sleep. Surely, it must by this time be evident to all 
but prejudiced observers, that had there been a — of truth in the 
allegation of painless operation under the influence of mesmeric sleep, 
medical professors would most gladly have senile themselves of its 
services. 
~ To return, however, to the ether. The inhalation of gases as a 
means of oan disesau:s is, it appears, not new in the medical pro- 
fession. It was carried toa great extent by Dr. Beddoes ; but has been 
comparatively intle employed in the recent practice of medicine and 
Sur. , 
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Mon practice in our chemical lecture-rooms to administer, by way of 
amusement to the —_ nitrous oxyd, or laughing gas, on account of 
its influence on the nervous system. It has also been known for a 
of time, that the vapor of ether, when rome: inte the system, 
Produces an meffect «n n the nervous apes s been stated to 
the —. of the body—occasioning an increase of their activity ; so 
that pe persons who have breathed it have a tendency to running, jumping, 
hing, la laughing, and other motions of the muscular system. The aq- 
Purpose o C praducing insensibility we are indebt 
ton and Jackson,* ‘of Boston, in the United States; and we Pelev we 
may, congratulate these gentlemen on having made the most im 
discovery which has been contributed to medicine since that of vaccina- 
ut also in the most tedious and iomeniep, and 
those enor the ets pmouns of danger from the shock given to 
icceea e 
orton, whose name is here mentioned, evinted his first information on 
Dr. Jackson, 
those from 
