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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Jackson, Charles Thomas 1805-1880 (search)
Jackson, Charles Thomas 1805-1880 Geologist; born in Plymouth, Mass., June 21, 1805; graduated at Harvard in 1829, and afterwards studied in Paris. He was appointed State geologist of Maine and surveyor of public lands in 1836, and of Rhode Island in 1839; and subsequently was engaged on the geological survey of New Hampshire; explored the southern shore of Lake Superior in 1844; and was appointed to survey the mineral lands of Michigan in 1847. He is author of a large number of reports on the geology of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, etc. He claimed to be the discoverer of etherization, and received the Montyon prize from the French Academy of Sciences. He died in Somerville, Mass., Aug. 28, 1880.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Morton, William Thomas Green 1819-1868 (search)
ly rooted tooth without pain. At the request of Dr. John C. Warren, ether was administered to a man in the Massachusetts General Hospital, from whose groin a vascular tumor was removed while the patient was unconscious. Dr. Morton obtained a patent for his discovery in November, 1846, under the name of Letheon, offering, however, free rights to all charitable institutions; but the government appropriated his discovery to its use without compensation. Other claimants arose, notably Dr. Charles T. Jackson and Horace Wells, and he suffered great persecution in private and before Congress. His business was ruined, and at the end of eight years of ineffectual struggle to procure from Congress remuneration for his discovery he and his family were left in poverty. Honorable medical men of Boston, New York, and Philadelphia assigned to Dr. Morton the credit of the great discovery — the most important benefaction ever made by man to the human race —and Samuel George Morton, M. D. said s
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Wells, Horace 1815-1848 (search)
ucation and after learning dentistry began practice in his native city, in 1840; after long seeking a means of preventing pain while extracting teeth, he made several unsuccessful experiments with various substances, and then declared that the only efficient treatment was that of nitrous oxide. It was not, however, until Dec. 11, 1844, that he put this agent into practical use, by having a tooth extracted from his own mouth without feeling pain. He then began to use the gas in extracting teeth from other persons. He was the author of A history of the application of nitrous-oxide gas, ether, and other vapors to surgical operations. He died in New York City, Jan. 24, 1848. A bronze statue of Dr. Wells has since been erected in Bushnell Park, Hartford, bearing an inscription crediting him with the discovery of anesthesia, although his claims and those of Drs. Charles T. Jackson, John C. Warren, William T. G. Morton, and Gardiner Q. Colton, formed the cause of a notable controversy.