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SIMPSON, James Young (1811-1870). Anaesthesia, or the Employment of Chloroform and Ether in Surgery, Midwifery, etc.. Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1849.
8o (222 x 145 mm). Wood-engraved title vignette. (Occasional light foxing.) Publisher's blue blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt lettered (edges rubbed, covers a bit stained, spine ends chipped and backstrip faded); folding cloth case. Provenance: the author's copy (signatures on title and on front free endpaper); John Odiarne Luxford (bookplate); "M.H.A.D." (inkstamp).
THE AUTHOR'S COPY OF THE FIRST COLLECTED 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). Heirs of Hippocrates 1766; Osler 1366; Waller 8959; Norman 1946.
[With:]
SIMPSON. Contributions to Obstetric Pathology and Practice. Edinburgh: Sutherland and Knox; London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co., 1853.
8o (223 x 142 mm). Wrapper title, prefatory note dated January 1, 1853 on verso of front wrapper; two wood engravings, one full-page. (Light browning throughout, foremargin of first leaf darkened and slightly chipped.) Original brown printed wrappers (minor tears to fore-corners of lower wrapper, tail of spine chipped, slight staining to upper wrapper). Provenance: J. L. Hunt of Brooklyn, NY (inkstamp); A. E. Foote, Philadelphia (bookseller's ticket).
A collection of ten papers reprinted from the Monthly Journal of Medical Science for 1852, concerning various topics of obstetrics, gynecology, and neo-natal care, including the use of chloroform to treat infantile convulsions, and various diseases of the uterus and ovaries. The prefatory note announces further editions of collected papers, but no more appear to have been published. Norman 1947. (2)
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THE AUTHOR'S COPY OF THE FIRST COLLECTED 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). Heirs of Hippocrates 1766; Osler 1366; Waller 8959; Norman 1946.
[With:]
SIMPSON. Contributions to Obstetric Pathology and Practice. Edinburgh: Sutherland and Knox; London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co., 1853.
8
A collection of ten papers reprinted from the Monthly Journal of Medical Science for 1852, concerning various topics of obstetrics, gynecology, and neo-natal care, including the use of chloroform to treat infantile convulsions, and various diseases of the uterus and ovaries. The prefatory note announces further editions of collected papers, but no more appear to have been published. Norman 1947. (2)