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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 17 1 Browse Search
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Frank Preston Stearns, Cambridge Sketches, Dr. W. T. G. Morton (search)
of surgery, but he would seem to have lost confidence in his method and afterwards abandoned it. In December, 1844, Horace Wells, a dentist of Hartford, had a tooth extracted by his own request while under the influence of nitrous oxide; and the fd, --working half the night with an instrumentmaker to devise a suitable apparatus for inhalation. Doctor Jackson and Horace Wells also presented their claims to the committee and were respectfully considered. The report of this committee is a vao judge fairly of the circumstances attending the advent of painless surgery. The committee decided unanimously that Doctor Wells did not carry his experiments far enough to reach a decided result; that Doctor Jackson's testimony was contradictory disuse. Half a million would not have been more than Morton deserved, and a hundred thousand might have been bestowed on Wells. Doctor Morton must have thought now that the clouds were lifting for him at last; but they soon settled down darker t