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erties of chlorine, and it has this advantage over the sulphuric or other 

 ethers, that it is always grateful. I have known no child refuse it. 

 Yours, &,c. E. Ives. 



January 2, 1832. 



N. B. The last vial you furnished me, I gave to a female, fifty 

 years of age, who has been affected with paroxysms of asthma for 

 more than twenty years. 1 have seen the patient but once since the 

 medicine was given, when she was evidently better, and said she 

 thought the medicine had done her good. I have used the ether 

 for spasmodic cough, and am so much satisfied with the beneficial 

 effects of the remedy in such cases, that 1 shall use it more exten- 

 sively as soon as I shall be able to furnish myself with a quantity of 

 it. E. I. 



Dear Sir. — I have been much pleased with the effects of the 

 " chloric ether" with which I was favored through your kindness. 

 The first case in which I administered it was in that of Mr. Coffing, 

 who was severely ill with atonic quinsey, — he was unable to swallow. 

 The ether was injected by means of a syringe, with the happiest 

 effect. After using the syringe he was able to swallow and took the 

 same article internally with benefit. I have also witnessed its bene- 

 ficial effects in pneumonic cases. 



Respectfully yours, Nathan B. Ives. 



Professor Silliman, &c. 



I have not yet received the statements of the other medical gen- 

 tlemjen, but have understood that the chloric ether has generally prov- 

 ed grateful, soothing and reviving, and the patients have sent to me 

 repeatedly for a renewal of their supply, as the ether is not to be 

 obtained in the shops. It appears to have been particularly accepta- 

 ble in various maladies induced by the prevailing influenza. Having 

 been requested, by some of our physicians, to obtain a supply for 

 regular use, I have written to Mr. Guthrie, and received from him 

 an answer dated Sackett's Harbor, Dec. 24, 1831, from which the 

 following is an extract : 



" I have been confined by sickness most of the time since the 7th 

 of October, but am now recovering rapidly, and hope within a very 

 few days to be able to go into my laboratory, when I shall prepare, 

 and forward to the care of Van Buren, Wardell h Co., New York, 



