Remarks on the superinduction of anaesthesia in natural and morbid parturition : with cases illustrative of the use and effects of chloroform in obstetric practice / By J.Y. Simpson...With an appendix.

  • James Young Simpson
Date:
1848
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Credit: Remarks on the superinduction of anaesthesia in natural and morbid parturition : with cases illustrative of the use and effects of chloroform in obstetric practice / By J.Y. Simpson...With an appendix. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    V I ■ VI. 6. Superinduction of An.esthesia + Appendix Boston, 1848. Title: [Same as preceding through quotations] | [short rule] | with an appendix. | [short rule] | Boston: | Published by Wil- liam B. Little & Co., I Chemists and druggists, | 104 Han- over, Corner of Salem Street. I 1848. Cover title: Same as title but within line border. Collation: 8°. 48 pp. Contents: p.[i] title; p.[2] 'White & Potter, Printers, Spring Lane, Boston.': p.[3] 'Preface to the Boston edition' dated 1 February 1848; p.[ 11 blank; p.[5] dedica- tion to 'John C. Warren, M.D. . . . with the respects of the publishers'; p.[G] blank; pp.[7^27 text; p.[28] blank; pp.[29]- [8 Appendix (testimonials). Note: The Appendix starts with a long letter from J. C. Warren on the chemical nature and synthesis of chloroform and is followed by other letters from Boston surgeons contrasting chloroform with ether. Their reception of chloroform was at first enthusiastic. The back cover carries a print of the W. B. Little & Co. premises at 104 Hanover Street (corner of Salem). I 1