Treadwell Library, Boston, MA, USA.
Anesth Analg. 2010 Jan 1;110(1):195-7. doi: 10.1213/ane.0b013e3181af7f9a. Epub 2009 Aug 27.
Like William T.G. Morton, Elton Romeo Smilie (1819-1889) was raised in Massachusetts, attended medical school in New England, practiced dentistry there, strove for clinical invention, and moved to Boston. In October 1846, both announced that inhaled ethereal preparations achieved reversible insensibility in surgical patients. Smilie published a report in the Boston Med Surg J 3 wk before Bigelow used that forum to broadcast Morton's Ether Day. Smilie's preparation was an ethereal tincture of opium, and, as he mistakenly believed the opium to be volatile and important, he ceded priority to Morton for ether anesthesia. The two authors collaborated on chloroform, but Smilie soon headed off in the Gold Rush to California. It is tempting to speculate that Charles T. Jackson and Morton were indebted in part to Smilie.
和威廉·T.G.莫顿一样，埃尔顿·罗密欧·斯米尔利（Elton Romeo Smilie，1819-1889）在马萨诸塞州长大，在新英格兰的医学院接受教育，在那里行医，努力进行临床创新，并搬到了波士顿。1846 年 10 月，两人都宣布吸入醚类制剂可使手术患者达到可逆性麻醉。斯米尔利在比格洛（Bigelow）利用该论坛传播莫顿（Morton）的乙醚日之前的 3 周在《波士顿医学与外科学杂志》上发表了一份报告。斯米尔利的制剂是一种醚类鸦片酊，由于他错误地认为鸦片具有挥发性且很重要，因此他将乙醚麻醉的优先权让给了莫顿。这两位作者合作研究了氯仿，但斯米尔利很快就前往加利福尼亚的淘金热地区了。人们不禁要推测，查尔斯·T.杰克逊（Charles T. Jackson）和莫顿（Morton）在一定程度上得益于斯米尔利（Smilie）。
