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Professor of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. It is a happy conception of the trustees and staff of theM assachusetts General Hospital to set apart the sixteenth ofO ctober as Ether Day, and to provide for the annual public celebration, in this historic place, of the anniversary of that most beneficent gift of medicine to mankind, the introduction of surgical anaesthesia. I esteem it a high honor to be invited to deliver the annual address in commemoration of the great event vhich took place within these walls sixtytwo years ago to-day. Of the significance of this event there can be no question, whatever controversy there may be concerning the exact share of all who participated in the discovery of surgical an2esthesia. The attendant circumstances were such as to make the operation performed onO ct. 16, 1846, in the surgical amphitheater of this hospital, by John Collins Warren, upon the patient, Gilbert A bbott, placed in the sleep of ether anaesthesia by William Morton, the decisive event from which date the first convincing, public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia, the continuous, orderly, historical development of the subject, and the promulgation to the world of the glad tidings of this conquest of pain. Had this demonstration or any subsequent one of like nature failed of success, it is improbable that we should have heard much of claims to the prior dis Address delivered at theM assachusetts General Hospital on the sixty-second anniversary of Ether Day.
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