Simpson on Chloroform
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Author: Simpson, James Young
Title: Anaesthesia, or the Employment of Chloroform and Ether in Surgery, Midwifery, etc.
Place Published: Philadelphia
Publisher:Lindsay & Blakiston
Date Published: 1849
Description:
Author: Simpson, James Young
Title: Anaesthesia, or the Employment of Chloroform and Ether in Surgery, Midwifery, etc.
Place Published: Philadelphia
Publisher:Lindsay & Blakiston
Date Published: 1849
Description:
[4], (xiii)-248 pp. (8vo) original blindstamped brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, rebacked with original spine cloth preserved. First Edition.
The first book-length collection of Simpson's writings and speeches on the new anesthetic agents, constituting "his first full- dress exposition of the use of anaesthesia in childbirth and major surgery" (Norman). Formerly in the collection of the Long Island Historical Society (bookplates). Heirs of Hippocrates 1766; Osler 1366; Waller 8959; Norman 1946.
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Small stain in upper margin, some pencil markings, light foxing; very good.
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