Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-27
BY EDWIN F. BOWERS. M. D.

putate leg without the person feeling it. The next day
he inhaled the gas himself and had tooth removed
when under its influence. When he recovered conscious
he exclaimed Il in tooth pulling! 1t DID
not hurt much as the prick OF pin! 1t IS the
greatest discovery ever made!
1t IS said that he was brave man who flrSt ate an
Wells, ~ -
About the same time Dr. Morton used ether on case
in the Massachusetts, General Hospital, and old DR..
Warren excised tunor from the neck of young man,
under the influence of @letheon,' Morton called his
preparation. When the patient awoke Warren had
difficult task convincing him that he had parted with
his few weeks later, in the presence of many
OF the most eminent surgeons In America Dr. Warren
did leg arnputation which successful that the
Of the Blessed Sleep might be truly said to date from
this.
In fact, the American pioneers Long, Norton Jack
son. Wells and Others having generally uniform
with nitrous oxd and ether in various dental
and surgical operations.
Edinburgh Hospital, that shrewd, far-seeing Scot.
Simpson, watched eagerly the results of this work.
These he tried faithfully in his obstetrc practice but
forced to discard inefficient Laughing gas
transient its effects ether active enough,
and besides it provoked horrible nausea
MYTH Drs Keith and Matthews Duncan his as
- sistants, he continued testing the benurlbing
properties Of everything that came to hand without
avail. Finally Simpson remembered that Walde,
Liverpool chemist had sent him bottle containing
heavy colorless liquid, discovered by the American
Guthrie sixteen years before
He uncorked it. divided its contents into three parts
and he and his assistants started to nhae it. In few
minutes DR. Keith tried to assassinate fly the OPP
posite wall with bootjack, Dr. Duncan started roll
licking song, and Professor Simpson insisted telling
a story that old when Aristophanes young.
Some women visitors just then into the room, and
Immediately became objects of gallant attention from
these erstwhe digniied savants The
astonished; but their establishment increased when
these gay Don Juans, suddenly remembering their
finished experiment. went back to their interrupted in
halaon, and finally subsidized after the other into
stupor
When Simpson recovered consciousness he sat up and
exclaimed "Eureka!' in broad Scottish Then Miss
Petre, one of the visitors wishing to demonstrate
her metal inhaled the vapor, and fell asleep warblng
@Brtons never ne-ever-r will be sla-aves."
Shortly afterward Simpson began to choroforrl
in his obstetrc cases Instead of haing him bene
factor the walls of wrath opened and aledicons
poured upon his devoted head. But it was hard head
and furthermore red head, built for fighting and
Simpson sent back good he received First he had to
fight the reactonists then he had the criticisms
of world of dodos with the brains of who
insisted that he interfering with divine ordinance
when he presumed to relieve the pains of childbirth.
But Simpson, in the intrepid consciousness Of right
answered with quotation from the second chapter or
Genesis in which it is told that when the Lord resected
that rib from ADAM order to furnish up Eve little
completely He caused deep sleep to fall upon
Adam, and he slept
That didn't satisfy the malcontents, and the battle
still ragged every foot of ground hoty contested by both
sides, until the best loved Queen that England
knew decided the question with her own experiences
chief saturated with sweet, pungent liquid over her
face. and Princess Victoria born when she yet
unconscious. year later the Queen again availed her
self of the Blessed Sleep, and the victory for
anesthesia.
Victoria knighted the bakers son, and he signed him.
self thereafter, at his pleasure Sir James Young Sip
son, Bart And now, in Westminster Abbey his bust.
with the funny neck whiskers, looks in beaning
ind IF