DAVY, Humphrey. Researches Chemical and Philosophical chiefly concerning Nitrous Oxide, London: for J. Johnson, 1800, 8°, FIRST EDITION, engraved plate (plate and title loose and browned, several preliminaries loose), uncut in original paper-backed boards (lacking backstrip, upper cover detatched, worn at edges). [Norman Library 607; Garrison & Morton 5646]

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DAVY, Humphrey. Researches Chemical and Philosophical chiefly concerning Nitrous Oxide, London: for J. Johnson, 1800, 8°, FIRST EDITION, engraved plate (plate and title loose and browned, several preliminaries loose), uncut in original paper-backed boards (lacking backstrip, upper cover detatched, worn at edges). [Norman Library 607; Garrison & Morton 5646]

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Davy was director of Thomas Beddoe's Pneumatic Institution, where he discovered the anaesthetic properties of nitrous oxide (laughing gas). Despite his suggestion that it should be used in minor surgical operations, it was not put to this use until 1844.

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