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Anesthesia

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  • Early history of the anaesthetic discovery; or painless surgical operations. With letters to and from Sir James Y. Simpson, Dr. Benjamin W. Richardson and Dr. Henry Bennet. Boston versus Hartford / [Robert Hanham Collyer].
  • Hordeum vulgare (Barley)
  • Equipment for the application of a local ether anaesthetic.
  • Anæsthetics : their uses and administration / by Dudley Wilmot Buxton.
  • Anaesthetics ancient and modern : an historical sketch of anaesthesia.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Essentials of general anæsthesia / by R.R. Macintosh and Freda B. Bannister ; illustrated by M.C. McLarty.

    Macintosh, R. R. (Robert Reynolds), Sir, 1897-1989. | Date: [1952]
    • Film

    Signs of anaesthesia including controlled respiration.

    | Date: [between 1940 and 1949]
    • Books

    The art of anaesthesia / by Paluel J. Flagg.

    Flagg, Paluel J. (Paluel Joseph), 1886-1970. | Date: 1916
    • Books

    Historia de la anestesiologia : con contribuciones originales de procedencia lusohispana y latino-americana / J. Antonio Aldrete.

    Aldrete, J. Antonio. | Date: 1985
    • Books

    Modern anæsthetic practice / edited by the late Sir Humphry Rolleston and Alan Moncrieff.

    Rolleston, Humphry Davy, Sir, 1862-1944. | Date: 1946
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