WARREN, John Collins (1778-1856). Effects of Chloroform and of the strong chloric ether as narcotic agents, Boston: William D. Ticknor, 1849, 8°, FIRST EDITION, folding letterpress table, original limp brown cloth, stamped in blind and with title in gilt on upper cover (cover with discrete library marks, some wear to spine and corners, front inner hinges split). [Waller 10120]

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WARREN, John Collins (1778-1856). Effects of Chloroform and of the strong chloric ether as narcotic agents, Boston: William D. Ticknor, 1849, 8°, FIRST EDITION, folding letterpress table, original limp brown cloth, stamped in blind and with title in gilt on upper cover (cover with discrete library marks, some wear to spine and corners, front inner hinges split). [Waller 10120]

拍品專文

Warren undertook the celebrated operation at Massachussets General Hospital on 16 October 1846 when W. T. G. Morton gave the first public demonstration of the anaesthetic properties of ether. Warren, the director of the hospital, described this operation in Etherisation with surgical remarks (Boston, 1848). But chloroform had been introduced by James Young Simpson as a substitute for ether in 1847, barely a year later. The present work by Warren is a case study of 10 operations where the patient had apparently died as a result of receiving chloroform, with his conclusions, rules for greater safety in the use of either anaethetic, and call for greater caution before the universal adoption of chloroform as the superior narcotic.