New-York tribune., 1880-01-06

ject for experiment with chemical lecturers p"',
according Sir James Paget. 1t was not until io7f
that IL was brought into prominent notice by MI Oo
ton, popular lecturer on chemistry. who dehVereu
lecture on Laughing Gas in Hartford, Conn. In's
attracted the attention of Mr. Horace Wells. dentist OF
that city, who became convinced that under the innu
of this gas teeth might be drawn without pain de
tried tfe experiment upon himself with complete sue
cess and In few weeks had extracted teeth from more
than dozen persons under the action OF nitrous ofoe
and except in two or three cases WITHOUT p"ih
A short time after be obtained permission irom
DR.. John G. Warren to try the experiment In
the Boston Medical College but there was some dun
der in the arrangements; the gas-bag Withdrawn
from the patient too he screamed with pain when
the tooth drawn the students hissed ana hooteu
and the discovery denounced as an lmpos'ure'
Meantime attention had been dir cted In England 70 e
inhalation OF sulphurc ether DR.. Beddoes and others
wrote in its favor anodyne for asthma phthlss'
and some other diseases Of the chest. But 1t had niue
practical effect In 1872 nearly three years before the
experiments Of Horace Wells with nitrous OXIDE Dr.
Crawford Long that time practising physician IN
State Of Georgia. began to make use OF suipnurlc
ether surgical cases. and with entire success. bu'
his experiments called forth no public notice His op-
Servatons were published, and were scarcely known
beyond the limits of his own neighborhood. But DIS
work was taken up by other hands. In 1s46 DrW.T'G u
Morton acting under the advice OF DR. Charles TJackson
Boston chemist and Geologlst, commenced series Vi
experiments with suphurc led to the oper
atons in October 1916, by Drs. Warren and Hayward
in the Massachusetts General Hospital, since when
date the of an@sthecs in general surgery mas pcen
an established element in professional practice The
conclusion the whole matter is thus set forth by sr
James Paget: " Morton answered well to the definition
given, 1t Is said by Sydney Smith He Is not the
inventor who first says the thing but ne WHO
says long, loudly and clearly that he compes man
kind to hear him. without either SKILL or knowledge, or
fpra ha nliadf fha
complete discovery OF an9sthetcs might have been. at
least long Observation-Disclosures perseverance,, self conn.,
dence While Long waited, and Wells turned
back, and Jackson thinking and those 10
whom they had talked neither acting nor thinking
Morton the practical man. went to work and worked
resouely He gave ether successfully In severe sure
cal operations, he loudly proclaimed his Deeds ana
pelled mankind to hear him. His claim very
clear"
The articles OF principal interest in The Fortnighy
are "Mr. Carlyles Political Doctrine" by W. H. Court
ney "Thc Letters of Charles ckers by W. Mimic. ana
"Buddhas First Sermon" by I. W. Rhys Davids. Ihe
last named paper contains brief expression OF the eth
cal code OF Buddha presented in the FIRST Sermon
which gives very high idea either OF the originality
the significance OF the moral System Inc Hults
which exhibited specimens OF one OF the great
est and original thinkers on moral ana religious
questions whom the world has yet SEEM are certainly
beautiful the and sweet TO the TASTE but IN no re-
,pect better than the homey teachings which the Amer
ican boy mbbes with his mothers milk at froside ana
farmsde and which form the and the blood OF
the highest classes OF the national population. Inc
Four Noble Truths" " and the Noble Elghuod Path'
which, according TO the writer compose the essence OF
Buddhist ethics are Right Views High Aims, Kindly
speech Upright Conduct, Harmless Livelihood Per
severance In We'll Doing, Intellectual Activity ana
Earnest Thought "-admrable principles, no doubt but
which no student Paul. Isaiah or Moses need travel
barefoot TO India to attain