The United States of America : to all to whom these letters patent shall come: whereas Charles T. Jackson and William T. G. Morton, Boston, Massachusetts, have alleged that they have invented a new and useful improvement in surgical operations …, 1846.
Catalog Record: The United States of America : to all to whom these letters patent shall come: whereas Charles T. Jackson and William T. G. Morton, Boston, Massachusetts, have alleged that they have invented a new and useful improvement in surgical operations …, 1846.
Title: The United States of America : to all to whom these letters patent shall come: whereas Charles T. Jackson and William T. G. Morton, Boston, Massachusetts, have alleged that they have invented a new and useful improvement in surgical operations …
AccessKey: acaa
WLM Call Number: WO 211 E8 U50p 1846 RB oversized
Accession NO.: 9625
Publisher: [Washington] : [s.n.], 1846.
Physical Description: 1 broadside ; 40 X 26 cm.
Subject: Jackson, Charles T. (Charles Thomas), 1805-1880.
Subject: Ether Controversy – letter.
Subject: Anesthesia – history.
Subject: Anesthesia – Patents.
Subject: Morton, W. T. G. (William Thomas Green), 1819-1868.
Abstract: Patent no. 4848 acknowledges the invention of “a new and useful
improvement in surgical operations” by Charles T. Jacklson and William
T.G. Morton.
Content Notes: “These are therefore, to grant, according to law, the said William T.G.
Morton, his heirs, administers, or assigns, à the full and exclusive
right and liberty of making, constructing, using, and vending to others
to be used, the said improvement, a description whereof is given in the
words of the said Jackson and Morton in the schedule hereunto annexed,
and is made a part of these presents.”
General Notes: Digitized by Northern Micrographics August 23, 2010. Reprint digitized.
General Notes: This document is shelved with the oversized items in the rare book room.
General Notes: Signed by Edmund Burke, Commissioner of Patents, and James Buchanan,
Secretary of State on November 12, 1946.
