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EDITORIAL. 
detailed  account  of  the  life  of  Dr.  Morton,  of  the  incipient  steps  in  his 
discovery  of  etherization,  and  of  those  subsequent  occurrences  bearing  on 
the  various  attempts  to  get  an  award  from  Congress  for  the  discovery,  as  a 
great  public  benefit,  in  which  the  acts  of  the  rival  claimant,  Dr.  C.  T.  Jack- 
son, of  Boston,  are  fully  discussed  and  exposed.  The  mass  of  testimony 
of  a  documentary  character  is  so  great,  and  the  eminent  names  favorable  to 
Dr.  Morton's  claims  so  numerous,  that  one  is  almost  irresistibly  compelled 
to  acknowledge  that  the  agency  of  Dr.  Morton  in  the  matter  of  the  dis- 
covery of  the  application  of  etherization,  as  a  pain-relieving  agent  in  sur- 
gical operations,  and  in  making  it  a  practical  reality  by  his  bold  experi- 
ments, is  beyond  a  doubt,  and  it  is  this  which  constitutes  the  greatness 
of  the  discovery.  It  is  to  be  regretted  that  so  much  difficulty  has  occurred 
in  establishing  the  truth  in  regard  to  this  discovery.  Probably  if  Dr. 
Morton  had  been  less  inclined  to  reap  the  pecuniary  reward  of  his  discovery 
by  seeking  a  patent,  and  thrown  himself  at  once  on  the  magnanimity  of  the 
profession  and  the  world,  his  claim  would  have  been  acknowledged  without 
opposition. 
The  Druggist,  a  monthly  newspaper  for  the  trade.  Cincinnati,  April,  1859, 
vol.  1,  No.  1,  pp.  16  quarto. 
The  above  is  the  caption  of  a  new  pharmaceutical  monthly,  after  the 
style  of  the  Druggist's  Circular,  received  just  as  we  were  closing  our  last 
page.  It  is  edited  by  Henry  E.  Foote,  M.  D.,  who,  in  his  introductory  re- 
marks, refers  to  an  able  corps  of  contributors.  Among  these,  we  doubt 
not,  that  our  friend  E.  S.  Wayne  will  occupy  a  prominent  position,  as  in 
the  first  number  we  find  two  articles  from  his  pen.  Our  Cincinnati  friends 
now  have  a  medium  throngh  which  to  give  expression  to  the  suggestions 
and  discoveries  that  have  been  so  long  accumulating  within  their  borders, 
and  we  hope  to  hear  that  their  College,  stimulated  by  the  influence  thus 
created,  will  arouse  from  her  lethargy,  and  like  that  at  Baltimore,  com- 
mence a  new  era  in  her  history.  The  subscription  price  of  "  The  Drug- 
gist "  is  one  dollar,  and  we  cheerfully  place  it  on  our  list  of  exchanges. 
OBITUARY. 
Prof.  William  Tully. — This  distinguished  physician  and  pharmacologist, 
formerly  of  Yale  College,  so  long  known  for  the  extent  and  varied  character 
of  his  medical  acquirements,  and  especially  for  his  intimate  acquaintance 
with  our  indigenous  Materia  Medica,  died  on  the  28th  of  February,  at 
Springfield,  Massachusetts. 
M.  J.  L.  Lassaigne. — With  the  Journal  de  Chimie  Medicate  for  April 
comes  the  announcement  of  the  decease  of  one  of  its  original  editors,  M 
Lassaigne.  He  has  long  been  a  teacher  of  Chemistry,  and  for  thirty  years 
a  contributor  to  the  Journal  de  Pharmacie,  which  is  interspersed  with  his 
numerous  discoveries  and  observations,  rmong  which  was  the  discovery  of 
Delphinia. 
