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SIMPSON, JAMES YOUNG. Anaesthesia; or, The Employment of Chloroform and Ether in Surgery, Midwifery, etc.

8vo, original cloth, missing portion from top of spine; institutional stamp and contemporary signature on title; bookplate. Philadelphia, 1849

  • Notes: first collected edition. Simpson discovered the narcotic effects of chloroform. "This American volume marks the first book-form publication of Simpson's essays and speeches, and thus represents his first full-dress exposition of the use of anesthesia in childbirth and major surgery"--Norman 1946. Not in Fulton & Stanton or Howell.

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