Show I PS O I In Spite of Discouragements Dr r Guthrie Made Combination Chicago TournaI TM The ton boulder which Is to serve ve ass AB a memorial mem rial to Dr S Samuel Guthrie discoverer of chloroform is the thee e object of great Interest as It rests teMpo teMporarily rarity At a nue send and Jackson boulevard The boulder will m be pla placed in its position pe in Grant park as ason soon on AS arrangements can ean be made for a site it There I is some difference of opinion between the city authorities and th the park hoard heard but it is probable the monument nt will JO go to a spot near thE art institute Oss im Guthrie a grandson of Dr Sam Guthrie has the matter in charge I Chloroform was s discovered b by Dr Guthrie in 1 1531 but it was wa not until Oct Del 16 I that its success as a general an aesthetic was e established Dr John C Warren Va n proved r Nl Its worth in the Mama general T The expert ment was as made mad by Dr Warren arnn and aM Dr n F G Morton lonon the latter a Bus ton den dentist lt Dr Morton extracted all the teeth from the lower lowr jaw of a patient without causing the slightest pain Gen said seid Dr Warren addressing n II those present this Is 18 no humbug It was Wat a notable In which ry on one who took pert achi achieved td 1101 glory ex except pt the man who had hi his teeth pulled His name Dam Is not mentioned in a foot oot note not to an 0 of the th occurrence There is ne dc doubt whatever of the dis or of chloroform h form b by Dr Guthrie th then n i ring at Sack tt Harbor X N Y The idea of making makin the fx experiments that led to it lime came IUS as the result of reading an article S I I Journal Tournai wherein it was KS 1 stated thAt a new imported drug known as ac Dutch liquid was a very ry grateful diffusible stimulant wh when n dilated with a little alcohol sugar and water I As there had never been n the s slightest ht St doubt douW is ia the count country around Sacketts harbor that alcohol ol and water with a avery very little sugar was a grateful dU dif stimulant nt It is not to tn be won on I dered at that a little Dutch eDuth liquid should hould be tried triad as A blend h the con On and the judicious The addition of the Dutch liquid must have han appealed to to Dr Guthrie at any rate h he began to ex experiment in Ws ways to make it cheap r and therefore N mo more grateful to the multitude o of the afflicted Just 80 flow Dr Guthrie rains to select the prop proper chemicals in making h his expert tn is not clearly known but it is iM Sup x posed d that hP first finot selected whisky as the principal l ingredient because there was never r aft any scarcity Kardt of that chemical around Sacketts Harbor and it was wa nat trally the vel very fit first thing that every one oner r thought of ff in eaSt case of an emergency This i was a condition not peculiar to Harbor in particular the same respect for thE chemical bt being general through out northeastern New York With the whisky hisk to the amount of two which he at the ta i ern rn Mr Guthrie added three pounds or of chlorinated lime which he had been using i aS a disinfectant around the henhouse Great f fortitude and Dr n Dr I on i Gut part wn were it is said gaid I ret P h he lying bring himself to the point of to spoil se much ex excellent nent whisky h lk by adding all 1111 that old lime to Il it But resistance and courage j won woe i hi 1 would never risk It Sam said Fer nando Jones who Yoho stood near him watch ing 4 You II rue this day as long as Ag you Ih live That Was In the spring Sprin of 1st Mr i Jones was comparatively I A young man in ht days day And had bad accompanied Mr Ir Guthrie home from the tavern fearing that something might hAppen to Sam as I he passed down th the th thronged ed streets 14 or of I Harbor with alt all tha that t whisky in I his ju jug But In spite pit of Fernando Jones T and his I own scruples and misgivings Ute the time was wa added to tM the wh whisky The Thea t the stuff f w was boI boiled and the result rest was chloro f form fOnD I But it was not tailed Po by Dr Guthrie r i who named it ether And nd even after it was rut upon th the market as a I grateful and diffusible stimulant Ir Fer nando JO Jones still insisted tl that ct he I think much of the stuff and that in fact the only Dutch liquid he be ever ver cared i for was Holland gin Sixteen years ever before I chloroform or ether came to hue be used as a general anaesthetic b by inhalation But I thE original discovery of its manufacture hy by Samuel Guthrie 0 of Harbor 1 ha has never bf been en disputed It RIDe came into use I in ry through the experiments of the distinguished i f surgeon Sir James Y Simp i son of Edinburgh bt first tm published s 3 a pamphlet concerning its miraculous tf ef f s and utility and it astonishing tOda today that this pamphlet was fd in I a spirit of an anger r rather than rejoicing on m tM the part of o good And religious 1 people Pain they SAid was tM the Will of Get and I It was al to do 00 anything to eliminate it it quoting Scripture rela th tive to lh the fa fact in hi order to substantiate their ar arguments Bat Bitt in spite of this thi the u use of I form poP and all as a result of that happy of whisky and lime h l Dr and Fernando Jones wa way I down in Sackett s Harbor i |