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BIGELOW, Henry Jacob (1818-1890). "Insensibility during surgical operations produced by inhalation." In: Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. XXXV, No. 16, pp. 309-317. Boston: David Clapp, 1847.
Two volumes in one (XXXIV-XXXV), 8o (229 x 139 mm). (Occasional minor foxing and light browning.) Contemporary half calf, marbled boards.
FIRST EDITION, journal issue, OF THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE DISCOVERY OF SURGICAL ANAESTHESIA, THE MOST SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION TO MEDICINE MADE IN THE UNITED STATES DURING THE 19TH CENTURY. W.T.G. Morton, a Boston dentist, realized the anaesthetic properties of sulfuric ether in 1846, and began using it in his practice. Bigelow, for almost 40 years the dominant figure in New England surgery, had probably arranged the demonstration operations that took place at Massachusetts General Hospital on 16th and 17th of October that year, when John Collins Warren removed a benign angioma from under the jaw of a patient. Warren and Morton were at first reluctant to disclose the exact preparation used, as they wished to patent the process, but Bigelow effectively forced them to share their discovery by his immediate announcement of the achievement to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on 3 November, and by the present detailed article published the same month. Cushing B380; Garrison-Morton-Norman 5651; Grolier Medicine 64A; Heirs of Hippocrates 1859; Norman 232 (in original parts); Osler 1355; Wellcome II, 166.
Two volumes in one (XXXIV-XXXV), 8
FIRST EDITION, journal issue, OF THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE DISCOVERY OF SURGICAL ANAESTHESIA, THE MOST SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION TO MEDICINE MADE IN THE UNITED STATES DURING THE 19TH CENTURY. W.T.G. Morton, a Boston dentist, realized the anaesthetic properties of sulfuric ether in 1846, and began using it in his practice. Bigelow, for almost 40 years the dominant figure in New England surgery, had probably arranged the demonstration operations that took place at Massachusetts General Hospital on 16th and 17th of October that year, when John Collins Warren removed a benign angioma from under the jaw of a patient. Warren and Morton were at first reluctant to disclose the exact preparation used, as they wished to patent the process, but Bigelow effectively forced them to share their discovery by his immediate announcement of the achievement to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on 3 November, and by the present detailed article published the same month. Cushing B380; Garrison-Morton-Norman 5651; Grolier Medicine 64A; Heirs of Hippocrates 1859; Norman 232 (in original parts); Osler 1355; Wellcome II, 166.