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FREUD, Sigmund. [Caption title:] Ueber Coca. Offprint from: Centralblatt fr die gesamte Therapie 2 (1884). [Vienna: W. Stein for Moritz Perles, 1884].
8o (231 x 154 mm). 13 leaves, [1] 2-26 pp. Original plain gray wrappers (slight wear at ends of spine, small stain on front cover).
FIRST SEPARATE PRINTING, EXTREMELY RARE, OF FREUD'S ESSAY ON COCA AND COCAINE. A REMARKABLE PRESENTATION COPY TO ONE WHO HELPED WITH HIS RESEARCH, inscribed by Freud at top of the front cover: "Herrn Prof. A. Vogl/m[it] Dank u. Hockachtung/d. Verf." Dr. August E. Vogl (1833-1909) was a writer on pharmacology and botany. "Freud obtained his description of coca leaves from Vogl, who had 'most kindly placed his notes and books about coca at my disposal' (p. 1, note 3)" -- Norman. With Vogl's discreet name stamp on front cover.
"Aside from his psychoanalytical treatises, Freud's essay on coca and cocaine is almost his best-known work. The essay provided the best comprehensive review of the subject that had yet appeared, describing the early history of the coca plant and its use by South American native populations, the first European accounts of the plant in the sixteenth century, and the isolation of the alkaloid cocaine in 1859. Freud also presented his observations (with himself as subject) [Freud used cocaine at least until the mid-1890s] on the effects of the drug, describing its abolition of hunger and fatigue, the exhilaration and lasting euphoria it produced, and its supposed non-addictiveness -- a misapprehension he would later bitterly regret, as misuse of the drug contributed to the death of his dear friend Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow. Freud recognized the drug's anesthetic qualities and suggested its use as a topical anesthetic; unfortunately, Dr. Leopold Knigstein [see Freud books inscribed to him in this sale], the colleague to whom he suggested its trial, procrastinated, and the crucial experiments were performed by the ophthalmologist Carl Koller, who subsequently achieved worldwide recognition as the discoverer of local anesthesia" (Norman). Garrison-Morton 1880.1; Grinstein 14; Jones I, ch. VI; Standard edition 1884c; Stanford 7; Norman F7.
8o (231 x 154 mm). 13 leaves, [1] 2-26 pp. Original plain gray wrappers (slight wear at ends of spine, small stain on front cover).
FIRST SEPARATE PRINTING, EXTREMELY RARE, OF FREUD'S ESSAY ON COCA AND COCAINE. A REMARKABLE PRESENTATION COPY TO ONE WHO HELPED WITH HIS RESEARCH, inscribed by Freud at top of the front cover: "Herrn Prof. A. Vogl/m[it] Dank u. Hockachtung/d. Verf." Dr. August E. Vogl (1833-1909) was a writer on pharmacology and botany. "Freud obtained his description of coca leaves from Vogl, who had 'most kindly placed his notes and books about coca at my disposal' (p. 1, note 3)" -- Norman. With Vogl's discreet name stamp on front cover.
"Aside from his psychoanalytical treatises, Freud's essay on coca and cocaine is almost his best-known work. The essay provided the best comprehensive review of the subject that had yet appeared, describing the early history of the coca plant and its use by South American native populations, the first European accounts of the plant in the sixteenth century, and the isolation of the alkaloid cocaine in 1859. Freud also presented his observations (with himself as subject) [Freud used cocaine at least until the mid-1890s] on the effects of the drug, describing its abolition of hunger and fatigue, the exhilaration and lasting euphoria it produced, and its supposed non-addictiveness -- a misapprehension he would later bitterly regret, as misuse of the drug contributed to the death of his dear friend Ernst von Fleischl-Marxow. Freud recognized the drug's anesthetic qualities and suggested its use as a topical anesthetic; unfortunately, Dr. Leopold Knigstein [see Freud books inscribed to him in this sale], the colleague to whom he suggested its trial, procrastinated, and the crucial experiments were performed by the ophthalmologist Carl Koller, who subsequently achieved worldwide recognition as the discoverer of local anesthesia" (Norman). Garrison-Morton 1880.1; Grinstein 14; Jones I, ch. VI; Standard edition 1884c; Stanford 7; Norman F7.