title: Correspondence by Charles T. Jackson containing the earliest known illustrations of a Morton ether inhaler.
abstract: A letter, dated December 1, 1846, from Charles T. Jackson, MD, to Josiah D. Whitney contains a previously unreported description of a Morton ether inhaler and the only known contemporaneous hand-drawn illustrations of this type of ether inhaler. This letter and 2 other known letters on ether anesthesia were probably carried from Boston, MA, to Liverpool, United Kingdom, on the same paddle steamer (Acadia) that carried the well-known letter from Jacob Bigelow, MD, to Francis Boott, MD.
authors.affiliation: From the *Schools of Medicine and of Dental Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio; and †Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology, Park Ridge, Illinois.
authors.forename: Rajesh P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Haridas
authors.forename: George S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Bause
mesh_terms: D000758:Anesthesia / Q000266:history; D000776:Anesthesiology / Q000266:history*; D018685:Anesthetics, Inhalation / Q000266:history*; D001900:Boston; D004867:Equipment Design; D004986:Ether / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D049672:History, 19th Century; D006801:Humans; D009330:Nebulizers and Vaporizers; D006113:United Kingdom
chemical_list: D018685:Anesthetics, Inhalation; D004986:Ether