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"PharmJ: Owen's ether apparatus; Dr. Snow's apparatus; Jeffreys' apparatus; inhaler used at the London Hospital; inhaler's by Smee and Startin;and correspondence on the attempt to patent the inhalation-ether procedure."

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The Pharmaceutical Journal
(1 March 1847): 421-25, 397-99.

PDF courtesy of the Taubman Medical Library, University of Michigan.

PDF includes descriptions and illustrations for all apparatus discussed, as well as James A. Dorr's circular that defends the rights of Drs. Jackson and Morton to patent the use of ether vapor in operations.


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