The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-04-06


lated to command all The approaches within reach oi teLt
guns Why they should have abandoned this apparently
we may venture suppose that the known presence OF
large column Monclova which might have taken them
movement OF that division would render their position
tenabe, and jeopardize the safety of their army"l
Virtues Of the Letheon. or Ether Inhalation.
DRAWING TEETH UNDER INFLUENCE THE
LErHEoS..Miss Margaret Fuller, the Paris cores
last letter that she has had tooth extracted IN
that city after nhaing the Leheon, and she gives
graphic description OF her sensations during the OPP
Grafton AS many ladies, suffering with the tooth
ache, desire to have the dsoriered tooth pulled,
but afraid to employ the Leheon, we copy Miss
Fuers description in full that they may fully realize all
the facts. She writes:
"Ater suffering several days very much with the tooth
ache resolved get rid of the cause OF by the aid
the marvellous stories had heard The first time / in
hailed it, did not for several seconds feel the effect, and
just thinking, Alas dis has not power to soohe
nerves irritable nine when suddenly wandered OIL
don't know where, but was sensation like wandering
in long garden walks, and through many alleys 3 ees
many Impressions but all pleasant and serene The mo-
n,en the lube removed started into consciousness
tooth sill there. The dentist said had not seemed to
dos r and tbs time quilted The body Instantly and cnnno
any detail OF what saw and did but the i'm
preston ths Oriental tale, where the man has
his head in the water an instant only but IN his vision
thousand years seemed TO have passed experienced
that same sense OF immense length OF time and
succession oil lmPressiohss even now, u'e inoipen'
my mind in that state seems TO a FAR longer
back upon it. Suddenly seemed 10 the old den
list as had for the moment before inhaled the gas,
,hs tw vii ' The figure Fad Somewhat Of Fsusske,
magical air, and he seemed TO say, 'Cea inmHe Again
extract TOOTH but il gone. What is worth noticing
is the mental translation made of his words, which my
have caught for my companion tells me he SAID,
'C'ea moment phrase OF just as many sylla'les but
conveying just the opposite sense. 81 ia.
mseres You escape the effort Of screwing up your eour,
age of these moments, and escape the moment oil
HARM buuDt the IarO he
effect of having taken the ether bad for me- seemed TO
all the tne and neuralgia pain continued; this
lasted three days yet
! INsENsIBILITY TO FROM "A HOT IRoN-An exhibit
ton of extraordinary interest TO humanity occurred at the
Massachusetts General Hospital, Saturday last.
patient was present-a man in advanced lhe-who, we
understand, laborng under parapiegla, having ITS
origin in carries of the lower dorsal yertebra-ior
which DIR. Warren proposed the actual cautery After
the patient had inhaled the leheon, DR. Warren run an
iron rod heated to white heat to the length of about
two feet up and down the back each side OF the spine
burning tines side and one the other, and
then carried zig across, between the splneous pro-
cesses, the same distance The patient during this pro-
cess wholly unconscious of pain.
[Surgical Journal.
Among the increasing number OF successful expert
ments with the inhalation of ether, recodedby the
Edinburgh Witness is perhaps the most surprising and
amusing. The operation was performed By Professor
Miller at the Royal lnfrmary. The patient was md
die aged Irishman, navigator, who had sustained
compound fracture of the leg nine weeks before. The
fracture had moi united in consequence OF the presence OF
dead piece of bone and it became necessary
this by painful operation. The appeared to resist
the influence Of the vapo He said he was not asleep.
and declared, that SIT would not do" The operation was
at length begun; the patient remained unconscious
peating that t would not dothat the thing had not
succeeded with him AT the end OF ten minutes the ope
ration was finished; and the operator remarked to the
man. swell, suppose you won't let me operate to-day"
Certainly not" said the patient; '.it won't do must
be asleep. We can try itanother time. On sitting up
and seeing the wound he burst into immodeate fit OF
laughter saving No doubt there's blood or something
very like but haven't felt single thing done TO my
leg That bates the globe" and on being asked decided
" as to his having ssfet anything" he repeatedly
swered, "Not haporth." He got into amazing spirits,
and refused to leave the table until he had told 'a about
the todrums of the business"
more novel but equally successful application OF the
inhalation is recorded in the Edinburgh Weekly Journal
Professor Simpson has administered il in case OF diff
cult labor The patient deformed, and former
occasion had suffered dreaduy in labor during three or
four days the present occasion the was deliver
ed in asmany minutes remarkable circumstance pointed
in the of Dr. Simpson that whilst breathing
the ether the labor hrocs continued and yet the mother
was unconscious of pain-LOndOn Spectator.