Report of the Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts General Hospital, Presented to the Corporation, at their Annual Meeting, January 26, 1848.
Ether.
Anesthesia.
Massachusetts General Hospital.
Morton, W. T. G. (William Thomas Green), 1819-1868.
Jackson, Charles T. (Charles Thomas), 1805-1880.
Conclusions of a committee inquiring into the claims of W. T. G. Morton and Charles T. Jackson over the credit for the discovery of ether anesthesia.
Massachusetts General Hospital. Board of Trustees.
Boston : Printed by John Wilson
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R11.M39 (1848), p. 43-44.
Charles T. Jackson Communicates the Ether Discovery
Ether.
Anesthesia.
Jackson issued this publication “to interest both the Surgeon and the Solider, and with the intention of aiding the one and of informing the other” at the outbreak of the Civil War. The Manual provides illustrations and examples of cases from French medical literature, but also supports Jackson’s claim to the discovery of anesthesia:
"Those most competent to judge in this case have long since decided that I discovered the principle of anaesthesia, verified it by experiments on my own person, and by my prescription, also, made the application of it to surgery, in the highest sense of that term."
The passage displayed here lists Jackson’s history with anesthesia starting with the winter of 1841-1842.
Jackson, Charles T. (Charles Thomas), 1805-1880.
A Manual of Etherization : Containing Directions for the Employment of Ether,
Chloroform, and Other Anaesthetic Agents by Inhalation, in Surgical Operations …
Boston : Published for the Author by J. B. Mansfield
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Photograph of Charles T. Jackson.
Jackson, Charles T. (Charles Thomas), 1805-1880.
Photograph of Charles T. Jackson.
F. L. Lay's Photographic Atelier, 31 Winter St., Boston.
Boston Society for Medical Improvement (Mass.). Album of members and other distinguished physicians, 1872.
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Summons to Charles T. Jackson and others, January 1, 1850. Page 01-02.
Jackson, Charles T. (Charles Thomas), 1805-1880.
Lewis, Winslow, 1799-1875.
Medical jurisprudence.
Parkman, George, 1790-1849.
Webster, John White, 1793-1850.
Following the discovery of charred human bones and some artificial teeth in the laboratory of John White Webster, Harvard's Erving Professor of Chemistry, scientific experts were called in to provide anatomical and chemical analyses of the remains on December 2, 1849. The letter from Charles T. Jackson, describing some of the chemical findings, was addressed to Winslow Lewis, who headed a committee charged with making a post-mortem report which was then used as evidence in the 1850 trial of John White Webster for the murder of George Parkman. Winslow Lewis, Charles T. Jackson, and other members of the medical committee were examined as part of the proceedings on March 20 and 21.
Boston (Mass.). Municipal Court.
Lloyd E. Hawes collection of autographed letters, 1791-1967.
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Autograph letter signed : Boston, Mass., to Winslow Lewis,
[Boston, Mass.?], December 5, 1849. Page 01-03.
Jackson, Charles T. (Charles Thomas), 1805-1880.
Lewis, Winslow, 1799-1875.
Medical jurisprudence.
Webster, John White, 1793-1850.
Parkman, George, 1790-1849.
Following the discovery of charred human bones and some artificial teeth in the laboratory of John White Webster, Harvard's Erving Professor of Chemistry, scientific experts were called in to provide anatomical and chemical analyses of the remains on December 2, 1849. The letter from Charles T. Jackson, describing some of the chemical findings, was addressed to Winslow Lewis, who headed a committee charged with making a post-mortem report which was then used as evidence in the 1850 trial of John White Webster for the murder of George Parkman. Winslow Lewis, Charles T. Jackson, and other members of the medical committee were examined as part of the proceedings on March 20 and 21.
Jackson, Charles T. (Charles Thomas), 1805-1880.
Lloyd E. Hawes collection of autographed letters, 1791-1967.
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