Excerpt from The Invention of Anesthetic Inhalation: Or "Discovery of Anesthesia"MY dear sir: I have much pleasure in offering for your kind acceptance the accompanying pamphlet. In the Monthly Journal of Medical Science I have a long article on Etherization, vindicating your claims over those of Jackson.Of course the great thought is that of producing insensibility, and for that the world 28, I think, indebted to you.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.