Mesmeric Amputation Described in Augusta Case 1845
A physician details a mesmeric operation where Mrs. C. slept through an entire breast amputation performed by a colleague and himself. The procedure, witnesses including Professors Ford Mrans Forp and Newton, ended with the patient awakening unaware of the removal until told. The account cites the discipline and notes the event as a verification of insensibility under hypnosis.
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Mes. C
B. F. Kenrick
Mr. Kenrick
Ford and Mrans
Forp
Ans
Kenrick
Augusta, Ga
Ist
Conviction of Calvin Fairbank in Lexington for slave abduction
Calvin Fairbank, accomplice of Delia Webster, was tried in Lexington Kentucky on three indictments for abducting slaves. He pleaded guilty and urged the jury to show leniency, declaring abolitionist views. The jury convicted on all counts and imposed five years on each indictment, fifteen years total in the penitentiary.
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Calvin Fairbank
Delia Webster
Lexington
Kentucky
Lexington Observer
Vagaries of the Moon: Tom Moon Faces the Watch
A humorous tale of Thomas Moon arrested for drunken behavior as a clouded moonlight metaphor. The watchman mocks Moon’s condition and jokes about poetry. Moon is sent to the workhouse for three months, while an officer quips about Moon’s “rise and decline.”
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Thomas Moon
the Watch
Moon
Tom
Mr. Moon
Byron
Caraboose
Augusta Market Update Loose in Prices and Demand
The Augusta market reports fair business this week with prices little changed from the prior period. Demand remains steady and freights are at low rates. Bagging and groceries show no new features since the last report, with prices essentially the same.
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Culpon
WM. Haines, Jr
Garvin & Haines
C &c
WM. Haines
Broad Street
Augusta
Travener's Directory by Bronson in Press for March
I S Bronson of LaGrange Ga announces Broxson's Travener's Directory covering routes from New York to New Orleans with cross lines and partial country descriptions. It lists distances fare and travel times priced at 15 to 50 cents per copy with notable binding options. Sellers and wholesalers along regular travel routes invited. editors asked to notice publication.
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Broxson
Travener
New York
New Orleans
I. S. Bronson
LaGrange
Prospectus for Prospective Temperance Journal in New Orleans
A weekly family paper from New Orleans advocates Total Abstinence and reform in education and agriculture. It aims to elevate public morals and employ a nonsectarian Christian-inspired stance, avoiding sectarian religion and party politics. Published by Stevens & Anfis with advance annual price of two dollars and fifty cents.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
South-West
South- West
Friends of the Cause
Stevens & Anfis
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