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1847 · 68223 — 1847. Boston Med. Surg. J. 36/23. - Boston David Clapp Wednesday July 7 1847 8° pp.449-468 Broschur. First Print! This letter is also reprinted in Edward Warren 1778-1856 'Some Account of the Letheon: or Who is the Discoverer." 3rd. Ed. Boston 1847. "I am much pleased with a communication in a recent No. of your Journal signed "J. B." It seems to be a fair and impartial statement of the matter in controversy. Although gratified with the whole article 1 was particularly pleased with the principles laid down on which the honor of other great discoveries has been awarded and which must govern the public mind in regard to this. And acting on these principles the only ones heretofore recognized by the world in determining the rights of discoverers "J. B."-understood to be Jacob Bigelow M.D has it seems to me conferred all the honor in the case in question upon Dr. Morton. I will let this distinguished writer however speak for himself. He states the case thus:-" Several Portuguese navigators suggested. that there was undoubtedly a western continent and Columbus discovered that there really was one. .Jonathan Hullin 1736 made a theoretical steamboat on paper and seventy years afterwards Robert Fulton made a practical one on the Hudson. The milkers in Gloucestershire discovered that their sore fingers contracted in milking cows prevented them from having the smallpox and suggested this mode of prevention to Dr. Jenner who at that time knew no more about vaccination than Dr. Morton did about ether." These are the principles or rather this is the great principle which has governed and which cannot fail-even to gratify Dr. Morton's enemies-to govern the judgment and opinion of the public in its verdict relative to the question in controversy." Edward Warren: Dr. Jackson's Review of Dr. Gay's Statement Ac. BMSJ 36 1847 p.521 Jacob Bigelow 1787-1879 was an American physician botanist and botanical illustrator. He was architect of Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge Massachusetts in which he is interred husband to Mary Scollay and the father of physician Henry Jacob Bigelow. The standard author abbreviation Bigelow is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name. Further "Etheral Inhalation" p.465 and "Inhalation of Ether in Labor" p.466 unknown