Bause George S
Honorary Curator, Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology, American Society of Anesthesiologists, Schaumburg, Illinois; Clinical Associate Professor of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine and Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Schools of Medicine and of Dental Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.
J Anesth Hist. 2015 Jan;1(1):9-13. doi: 10.1016/j.janh.2014.11.010. Epub 2014 Nov 27.
Besides the famous London-bound Bigelow-to-Boot letter dated November 28, 1846, the mail bags of the steam paddler Acadia also carried, from Boston to Liverpool, additional correspondence reporting W.T.G. Morton's public demonstration of surgical etherization. Paramount among these other letters was the wax-sealed English language missive of Charles T. Jackson to the French Academy of Science's J.B.A.L.L. Élie de Beaumont, which was dated November 13, 1846. Unfortunately, Jackson made no copy of this original letter. In 1847, Élie de Beaumont published portions of the letter in the French language, extracts that Jackson back-translated to English by 1861. The original Jackson-to-Élie de Beaumont letter resurfaced in a Parisian auction (2005) and then a New York sale (2006). Remarkably, this original 13 November 1846 Charles T. Jackson-to-Élie de Beaumont missive-a landmark letter staking Charles T. Jackson's claims over W.T.G. Morton's to discovering etherization-was not transcribed completely and accurately, for publication, until this past year (2014).
除了1846年11月28日那封著名的从比奇洛写给布特、寄往伦敦的信之外，蒸汽明轮船阿卡迪亚号的邮袋还从波士顿运往利物浦，带去了更多关于W.T.G.莫顿公开演示外科乙醚麻醉的信件。这些信件中最重要的是查尔斯·T.杰克逊于1846年11月13日写给法国科学院的J.B.A.L.L.埃利·德·博蒙的一封蜡封英文信件。不幸的是，杰克逊没有留存这封原始信件的副本。1847年，埃利·德·博蒙用法语发表了这封信的部分内容，杰克逊在1861年又将这些摘录回译成了英语。原始的杰克逊致埃利·德·博蒙的信件在一场巴黎拍卖会（2005年）以及随后的一场纽约拍卖会（2006年）上重新出现。值得注意的是，这封1846年11月13日查尔斯·T.杰克逊致埃利·德·博蒙的具有里程碑意义的信件——这封信确立了查尔斯·T.杰克逊对于W.T.G.莫顿发现乙醚麻醉的主张——直到去年（2014年）才被完整、准确地转录以供发表。
