d sulphuric ether, in my office, to the
young man above alluded to, and after he had been rendered
insensible to pain, cut from his head an encysted tumor of
about the size of an English walnut. The operation was
entirely unattended with pain, and demonstrated to Dr. Wells
and myself, in the most conclusive manner, the anaesthetic
properties of ether vapor.'

"We have narrated this important experiment in the language
of Dr. Marcy, to whose affidavit we take leave to refer, as
no part of it can, with any propriety or justice, be
overlooked by any one who proposes to subject this matter to
a searching examination. It shows the progress and the
successful result of these inquiries and experiments of Dr.
Wells, and of those skilful and liberal professional
gentlemen who co-operated with him. It shows that the
opinion was then entertained by Dr. Marcy, that the
constituents of the gas were more nearly allied to the
atmospheric air than were those of ether vapor--that the
former was more agreeable and easy to inhale than the
latter, and upon the whole was more safe and equally
efficacious as an anaesthetic agent--and that this opinion
was fully confirmed by numerous experiments subsequently
made by Drs. Ellsworth, Beresford, Riggs, Terry, Wells and
himself. It shows further, that _Dr. Wells visited Boston in
1844, for the purpose of communicating his discovery to the
faculty of that city, and that, on his return, he informed
Dr. Marcy that he had communicated it to Dr. C. T. Jackson,
and to Dr. Morton, and received from the former, and from
other medical gentlemen of Boston, nothing but ridicule for
his pains_."

We have no room for testimony. Mr. Toucey concludes his statement in the
following manner:--

"More than a year and a half after Dr. Wells had personally
made known to Dr. Jackson, and to Dr. Morton, his former
pupil, the result of his experiments, more than one year
after the announcement in the Boston _Medical and Surgical
Journal_, published at their doors, we find Dr. Jackson and
Dr. Morton confederating together, taking out a patent for
this principle, and attempting ineffectually to appropriate
it to their joint pecuniary benefit! Dr. Jackson as the
philosopher, Dr. Morton as the operator! And shortly
afterwards