MORTON, DR. WILLIAM T.G. U.S. 37th Congress, 3d Session. Senate. Report [of] The Committee on Military Affairs and the Militia, to whom was referred the petition of Dr. William T. G. Morton, asking compensation for the discovery...of the application of ethereal vapor as a safe and practical anaesthesia... [Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office,] 1863.8vo, bound in full black cloth, gilt-lettered spine. First edition, first issue of a report concluding that Dr. Morton was responsible for the surgical application of ether and entitled to be compensated accordingly. Light soiling to boards.