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Edward Stanly, Alexander Evans · 1852 · Scanned text · Free in the US
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Licence: PD-US · Published 1852 (before 1884; date from the PleIAs English-PD record). The dataset curator states the whole collection is public domain in all regions (curator assertion, not independently verified); treated as public domain in the US.
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You’ve reached the end of Report to the House of representatives of the United States of America, vindicating the rights of Charles T. Jackson to the discovery of the anaesthetic effects of ether vapor, and disproving the claims of W.T.G. Morton to that discovery. Presented ... on the 28th of August, 1852.