New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-27
BY EDWIN F. BOWERS. M. D.

putac leg without the person feeling H. nc next ia.
he inhaled the gas himself. and had tooth removed
when under its influence When he recovered conscious
ness ne exclaimed, ~ new era IN tooth pulling II OH
not hurt me so much the prick Of PIN IL Is the
greatest discovery ever made
II is said that he was a brave man who first ate m
OYSTER What shall We say Of the hcrosm Of Dr. Horace
Wells,
About the same time DR.. Morton used ether q case
in the Massachusetts General Hospital. and old d.
Warren cxcised tufnor from the neck Of young man.
under the influence Of "lethcon Morton called his
preparation. When the patient aWOkc Warren had
difficult, task convincing him that he had parted with
III, turnor few weeks later. IN the presence OF manr
Of the most eminent surgeons in America, Dr. Warren
ill "a leg amputaton. which 50 successful that the
Of the Blessed Sleep might be truly said to date from
thi,
In fact the American pioneers Long. Morton. Jack
son. Well, and others having generally uniform
success with nitrous oxid and ether in various dental
and surgical operations.
AND away over the sea. in the clinics Of hi, beloved
"A Edinburgh Hospital, that shrewd, far-sccing Scot,
Sjmp,on watched eagerly the results Of this work,
weighing the advantages Of the different ancsthcc,.
Th, he tried faithfully in his obstctrc practice but
was forced to discard as inefficient Laughing "a,
too transient in it, effects ether not active enough,
and besides it provoked horrible nausea
WITH Dr, Keith and Matthews Duncan, hi.
w sistants. ne continued testing the bcnumbms
pfopcrtc, Of everything that came TO hand without
avail. Finally Simpson remembered that Nalde,
Liverpool chemist hdd sent MN DDllIc
heavy color,ss liquid. discovered by the American
Guthrie sixteen years before
He uncorkcd it, divided its contents into three part'
and he and his assistants started to nhae 1t. In e"
minutes DR. Keith tried 70 aSSasslnate lily on the OPP
po,ite wall with a bootlack DR. Duncan started roll
licking song and Professor Simpson insisted on telling
a story that old when Aristophanes was young:
Some visitors just then came into the room am
Immediately became objects OF gallant attention from
these crstwluc dignicd savants. The women were
astonishcl; but their aSonishmcnt increased when
these gay Don Iuans, suddenly remembering thcir ul-
finished experiment went back to their interrupted IN
halaon. and finally subsdcd one after the other INT"
When Simpson recovered consciousness he sat up ami
exclaimed "Eurckal' in broad Scottish Then Mis-
Pctrc one of the visitors wishing to demonstrate
her metal inhaled the vapor, and fell asleep warblng
"Brons never nc-cvcr-r will be Sla-avcs.
Shortly afterward Simpson began 10 use chloroiorm
in his obsctrc Instead Of haling nm as a peic
factor the vias OF wrath opened and maledictons
poured upon his devoted head But It was hard head
and furthermore a red head built for lighting. ana
Simpson sent back good rs he received FIRST he ad 70
fight the rcaconists then he had to meet the criticisms
OF a world Of dodos, with the brains OF cavemen VINO
insisted that he was interfering with divine ordinance
when he presumed to relieve the pans OF childbirth;
But Simpson in the intrepid CONSCIOUSNESS OF right.
answered with quotation from the second chapter o:
Genesis in which il is told that when the Lord resectei
that rib from Adam in order to furnish up Eve little
more completely He caused deep sleep to tall upon
Adam, and he slept 80 -,
still ragged every foot ground holly contested by both
sides until the best loved Queen that England ever
knew decided the question with her own experience
Dr. Snow her attending physician placed a handler
chief saturated with a sweet. pungen liquid over her
face and Princess Victoria was born when she was YET
unconscious year later the Queen again awaited hef-
sell of the Blessed Sleep and the victory was won Tor
aneShcsia ,,:
Victoria knighed the bakers son. and he signed NM
self thereafter at his pleasure, Sir James Dung Snnp-
son, Bart And now, in Westminster Abbey ms Dus',
With the funny neck whiskers, looks out in beamlils
kindness upon thousands and thousands OF women who
pay him the tribute of a visit
Obstetricians in all parts OF the civilized wori no"
hands the means whereby she may dull the cruel pam