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Title: Tri-State medical journal and practitioner
Year: 1897 (1890s)
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Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: St. Louis : (s.n.)
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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esponsibility of using it or sanctioning its use, to ascertain whether a trialcould be made without any apprehension of danger. Having satisfied my-self on this point by various questions, I agreed to give Dr. Morton the desiredopportunity as soon as it should be in my power. No such opportunity havingoccurred within a day or two in private practice, and being at that time in 86 Historical Sketch. the performance of my tour of duty at the Massachusetts General Hospital,I seized the occasion of the first operation in that institution for the pro-posed experiment. The patient was a young man about twenty years old, having a tumoron the left side of the neck, lying parallel to and just below the left portionof the lower jaw. This tumor, which had probably existed from his birth,seemed to be composed of tortuous, indurated veins, extending from thesurface quite deeply under the tongue. My plan was to expose these veinsby dissection sufficiently to enable me to pass a ligature around them.
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Dr. John M. Riggs. The patient was arranged for the operation in a sitting posture, andeverything made ready; but Dr. Morton did not appear until the lapse ofnearly half an hour. I was about to proceed, when he entered hastily,excused the delay, which had been occasioned by his modifying theapparatus for the administration. The patient was then made to inhale afluid from a tube connected with a glass globe. After four or five minuteshe appeared to be asleep, and was thought by Dr. Morton to be in a con-dition for the operation. I made an incision between three and four incheslong in the direction of trie tumor, and, to my great surprise, without anystarting, crying out or other indication of pain. The fascia were thendivided, the patient still appearing wholly insensible. Then followed theinsulation of the veins, during which he began to move his limbs, cry out,and utter extraordinary expressions. These phenomena led to a doubt of Historical Sketch. 87 the success of the application,

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