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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, The new world and the new book | 24 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, Louis Agassiz: his life and correspondence, third edition | 24 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Cheerful Yesterdays | 21 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Mary Thacher Higginson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson: the story of his life | 16 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature | 14 | 0 | Browse | Search |
History of the First Universalist Church in Somerville, Mass. Illustrated; a souvenir of the fiftieth anniversary celebrated February 15-21, 1904 | 10 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Women and Men | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 4 | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
John Jay Chapman, William Lloyd Garrison | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Dr. W. T. G. Morton
A distinguished American called upon Charles Darwin, and in the course of conversation asked him what he considered the most important discovery of the nineteenth century.
To which Mr. Darwin replied, after a slight hesitation: Painless surgery.
He thought this more beneficial in its effects on human affairs than either the steam-engine or the telegraph.
Let it also be noted that he spoke of it as an invention, rather than as a discovery.
The person to whom all scMr. Darwin replied, after a slight hesitation: Painless surgery.
He thought this more beneficial in its effects on human affairs than either the steam-engine or the telegraph.
Let it also be noted that he spoke of it as an invention, rather than as a discovery.
The person to whom all scientific men now attribute the honor of this discovery, or invention, is Dr. William T. G. Morton; and, although in that matter he was not without slight assistance from others, as well as predecessors in the way of tentative experiments, yet it was Doctor Morton who first proved the possibility of applying anaesthesia to surgical operations of a capital order; and it was he who pushed his theory to a practical success.
It may also be admitted that Columbus could not have discovered the Western