INTRODUCTION：Who discovered general surgical anesthesia？ 1
PART Ⅰ：International Wells Centenary celebration：Hartford，Connecticut，December 11，1944 19
PART Ⅱ：Wells Centenary celebrations in countries other than the United States： 89
Latin America 90
France 124
England 147
PART Ⅲ：Commemorations，in the United States，additional to the international Wells Centenary celebration in Hartford，Connecticut： 149
Resolution adopted by the Senate of the United States 150
Resolution adopted by the American Medical Association 151
Fiftieth annual meeting of the Horace Wells Club 154
Wells essay contest among senior students of dentistry，and the prize essay 159
Procedures of the American Dental Association 169
Celebrations in the states and District of Columbia 172
Meetings in Army commands，Naval districts，and Public Health Service stations 249
Selected addresses at Centenary celebrations 268
A playlet at a commemoration by a college of dentistry 308
Selected radio broadcasts 318
Quotations of newspaper comment 335
PART Ⅳ：Lists of Wells memorabilia，including bibliographies，memorials，and testimonials： 353
Connecticut State Library，Hartford，Conn 354
Library of the Hartford Medical Society，Hartford，Conn 368
Library of the Hartford Dental Society，Hartford，Conn 372
Library of the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery：Dental School of the University of Maryland，Baltimore，Md 375
Library of the School of Dentistry，University of Pittsburgh，Pittsburgh，Pa 379
INDEX 405