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Author: Davy, Humphry
Title: Researches, Chemical and Philosophical; Chiefly Concerning Nitrous Oxide, or Dephlogisticated Nitrous Air, and its Respiration
Place Published: London
Publisher:J. Johnson
Date Published: 1800
Description:

xvi, [2], 580, [2] pp. Frontispiece and first divisional title supplied in facsimile. (8vo) 20.5x13 cm (8x5"), 19th century half calf and marbled boards, gilt lettered spine label. First Edition.

"Davy, apprenticed as a surgeon-apothecary, published the above at age 22. Two years earlier, he had experimented with various gases at the Medical Pneumatic Institution in Bristol, to determine their medical properties. He discovered that pure nitrous oxide (laughing gas) was respirable and he breathed large quantities of it with exhilarating effects. He observed that 'it may probably be used with advantage in surgical operations'. Davy recounted the use of the gas in the alleviation of pain in inflamed gums induced by the eruption of a wisdom tooth, but more than 40 years passed before it or any other anesthesia was practically demonstrated." -Dibner Heralds of Science 128. Garrison & Morton 5646; Norman 607; Osler 1382

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Leather a bit dry, rubbed, bookplates, glue repairs to hinges; frontis and one leaf in facsimile, light foxing; very good.

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Sir Humphry Davy on Nitrous Oxide

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