Ether Controversy
- Abbot JH. Principles recognized by scientific men applied to the ether controversy, 1848.
- Abbot JH. The discovery of etherization, 1868.
- Anaesthesia by etherization, and the viburnum compound of Dr. Hayden, 1891.
- Bigelow HJ. A history of the discovery of modern anæsthesia (A Century of American Medicine, January 1876).
- Bigelow HJ. Ether and chloroform : a compendium of their history, surgical use, dangers, and discovery, 1848.
- Bigelow HJ. Insensibility during surgical operations produced by inhalation, 1846.
- Bigelow HJ. Insensibility during surgical operations produced by inhalation. Supplement to the Courant, 1846.
- Bowditch NI. Report of the Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts General Hospital, presented to the corporation, at their annual meeting, January 26, 1848.
- Bowditch NI. The ether controversy : vindication of the hospital report of 1848.
- Colton CQ. A true history of the discovery of anaesthesia : a reply to Mrs. Elizabeth Whitman Morton, 1896.
- Colton GQ. Anæsthesia, who made and developed this great discovery? : a statement delivered upon the mellowing of occasion, 1886.
- Cooley SA. Regimental Order no. 68 : Head Quarters, First Regiment, First Brigade, C.M., Hartford, Aug. 30th, 1855.
- Dwinelle WH. The casket and the ribbon, or, the honors of ether, 1849.
- Emerson EW. A history of the gift of painless surgery, 1896.
- Erving HW. The discoverer of anaesthesia : Dr. Horace Wells of Hartford, 1933.
- Historical memoranda relative to the discovery of etherization and to the connection with it of the late Dr. William T. G. Morton, 1871.
- Hodges RM. A narrative of events connected with the introduction of sulphuric ether into surgical use, 1891.
- Jackson CT. Protest of Dr. Charles T. Jackson against the bill providing for the recompense of the discoverer of practical anæsthesia, 1854.
- Lord JL, Lord HC. A defence of Dr. Charles T. Jackson’s claims to the discovery of etherization : containing testimony disproving the claims set up in favor of Mr. W.T.G. Morton, in the report of the trustees of the Massachusetts General Hospital, and in no. 201 of Littell’s Living Age, 1848.
- Magruder EM. Discovery of Surgical Anæsthesia, 1915.
- Massachusetts General Hospital. The Semi-Centennial of Anæsthesia, October 16, 1846 – October 16, 1896.
- McManus J. Notes on the history of anaesthesia ; The Wells memorial celebration at Hartford, 1894 ; Early records of dentists in Connecticut, 1896.
- Memorial to Dr. Crawford W. Long : an account of the ceremonies of the unveiling of a bronze medallion in the medical building on March 30, 1912, to the memory of Crawford W. Long, who first used ether as an anesthetic in surgery on March 30, 1842.
- Minot F, Ware J. [William T.G. Morton testimonial fund letter and circular], 1861.
- Morton EW. The discovery of anaesthesia. : Dr. W.T.G. Morton and his heroic battle for a new idea : how painless surgery began fifty years ago, 1896.
- Morton WJ. Memoranda relating to the discovery of surgical anesthesia, and Dr. William T. G. Morton’s relation to this event, 1905.
- Morton WJ. The invention of anæsthetic inhalation, or, Discovery of anæsthesia, 1880.
- Morton WTG. Circular. Morton’s Letheon. 5th edition, 1847.
- Morton WTG. To surgeons and physicians, 1846.
- Proceedings of the Erie County Medical Society on the Morton testimonial, 1865.
- Proceedings of the medical profession of Detroit on the Morton testimonial, 1865.
- Proceedings on behalf of the Morton testimonial, 1861.
- Remonstrance of physicians of Boston and its vicinity against an award to W.T.G. Morton as the discoverer of the anaesthetic effects of ether, 1852
- Simpson JY. History of modern anæsthetics : a second letter to Dr. Jacob Bigelow, 1870.
- Sims JM. History of the discovery of anæsthesia, 1879.
- Smith T. An address to an audience of ladies, 1858.
- Smith T. An examination of the question of anaesthesia : arising on the memorial of Charles Thomas Wells, presented to the United States Senate, 2d session, 32d Congress, and referred to a Select Committee, of which the Hon. Isaac P. Walker is chairman : prepared for the information of said committee, 1853.
- Smith T. An inquiry into the origin of modern anæsthesia, 1867.
- Stearns HP. The discovery of anæsthesia.
- Taylor FL. Crawford W. Long and the discovery of ether anesthesia; with a foreword by Francis R. Packard, 1928.
- 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.
- To the Honorable, the Senate & House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled.
- United States Congress (30th Congress, 2nd Session). Report no. 114. House of Representatives. Minority report. W.T.G. Morton. February 28, 1849.
- United States Congress (30th Congress, 2nd Session). Report no. 114. House of Representatives. William T.G. Morton, sulphuric ether. February 23, 1849.
- United States Congress (32nd Congress, 1st Session). Report to the House of Representatives of the United States of America vindicating the rights of Charles T. Jackson to the discovery of the anaesthetic effects of ether vapor and disproving the claims of W.T.G. Morton to that discovery, 1852.
- United States Congress (32nd Congress, 2nd Session). In Senate of the United Senate [sic.]. [Report of J.P. Walker]. The select committee, to which were referred the various memorials in regard to the discovery of the means by which the human body is rendered uniformly and safely insensible to pain under surgical operations, has had the subject under consideration, and now report, 1853
- Wales J. Discovery by the late Dr. Horace Wells, of the applicability of nitrous oxyd gas, sulphuric ether and other vapors in surgical operations, nearly two years before the patented discovery of Drs. Charles T. Jackson and W. T. G. Morton, 1852.
- Walker IP. Answer to an examination of the question of anaesthesia, 1853.
- Warren C. The influence of anaesthesia on the surgery of the nineteenth century : being the address of the president before the American Surgical Association, 1897.
- Warren E. Some account of the Letheon, or, Who is the discoverer?, 1847.
- Warren JC. The influence of anæsthesia on the surgery of the nineteenth century, 1900.
- Warren JM. The history of anaesthetics from an American point of view,1868.
- Welch WH. A consideration of the introduction of surgical anæsthesia, 1908.
- Welles G. [Letter to] Hon. John Appleton of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1852.
- Wells H. A history of the discovery of the application of nitrous oxide gas, ether, and other vapors, to surgical operations, 1847.
- Young HH. Long, the discoverer of anaesthesia : a presentation of his original documents, 1897.