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TURNER, MATTHEW. An Account of the Extraordinary Medicinal Fluid, called Aether. 1761
- Notes: scarce first edition. Turner was a Liverpool surgeon, chemist, and freethinker. In this pamphlet he advocated the use of vitriolic ether, taken orally or inhaled through the nose, for the relief of a variety of complaints, including headache and other pain. "With this recommendation of the inhalation of ether for killing pain, Turner has a place in the pre-history of anesthesia" (Norman). Fulton & Stanton I.9 ("important but little-known tract"); Norman 2116 (both citing the second edition). ABPC and RBH record only the Norman copy of the second edition, sold first in 1998 and again in 2003.
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