Northwestern University Dental School - Purple and Gold Yearbook (Evanston, IL)

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Hartford, Conn., United States of America, is due all the honor of having nrst discovered and successfully applied the uses of vapors or gases whereby surgical operations could be performed without pain, and also elected him an honorary member of their society. The Academy of Sciences in Paris conferred upon him the degree of M. D. In 1847 the General Assembly of Connecticut passed resolutions in favor of Dr. VVells as the discoverer of modern anesthesia: reso- lutions to the same effect were passed by the Court of Common Council of the city Hartford. All the physicians, surgeons and dentists of the city of Hartford united in a testimonial that it was the-ir belief that to Dr. Wfells belonged the honor of having discov- ered anesthesia. b -5 To Dr. Ive-lls not only belongs the honor of having discovered anesthesia, but to him also belongs the distinction of having had extracted from his o-wn mouth the hrst tooth ever extracted without pain by the inhalation of nitrous oxide gas. Dr. Wfells died in New York City. january 24, 1848. at the age of 33. In Bushnell Park, Hartford, there stands a monument erected by the state of Co-nnecticut and the city of I-Iartford, upon which is a portrait statue of Dr. Wfells and the following inscription: I-IORACE XVELLS XVho 'Discovered Anesthesia November, 1844. I have thus briefly told the story of the lirst tooth extracted without pain, as related to me by Dr. G. Q. Colton, who administered the gas to Dr. XVells upon the occasion of his discovering anesthesia, and -with whom I was formerly associated in practice in thc city of New York. l.. XY. Niavnfs. 197

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avmrfiifafawimvfmfi+i1a4afam1wfamifw+iMwmwfafa3 Q PANDEMONIUM SCHOLASTICUM 3 Ecasvswwc-vif+vswi+4wrvswiwi+vi+vi+awzfwssvzwwswvwiffvsffws QQQZIQQ .'.':' ' Q tzjigggf ' HE caption is a coinage. It represents the unpun- ished and unpunishable improprieties committed by students in a corporate, not in an individual capacity. The evil of which I shall speak is: QU The vicious ----- fiiifiiiifii product of an abortive attempt on the part of fond parents to enforce student-life on children, who, by preference, would choose the occupation of a cowboy, Qzj a mistake in the management of an institution, in not promptly and peremptorily expelling a rowdy the moment his disqualifying, rowdy elements become manifest. Ro-wdyism is not a crime-nor is inebriety a crime, each, how- ever, may become a nuisance, and as such should be abated, if not by the school, then by the state laws, under which the scho-ol exists. Rowdyism, like drunkenness, should disqualify for pro-fessional use- fulness. Rowdyism thrives and scholastic pandemo-nium holds high car- nival because man is a gregarious animal. In a class of one hundred students-except in tho-se institutions whose financial independence places them above commercialism--there a.re usually two leaders in rowdyism, whose uproario-us deportinent very soon forms a nucleus for improprieties on a larger scale, varying in quality from indecency to criminal, assault, endangering both limb and life. The rowdy instinct of the individual is soon spotted by the class. and its devotees, in spite o-f poor recitations and inferior mentality, are lionized openly by the class, and tacitly by the faculty, and prob- ably this is so because of man's gregariousness, which always is pros- titute to ,a leader, whose authority rests in popularity. The rowdy leader, physiologically, runs to laryngeal nerves, cortical speech cen- ters, and hypoglossa.l nuclei, rather than to frontal lobe qualities. Psychically and sociologically he is an exotic, 'flourishing in the hot- IQQ