Account of a new anaesthetic agent, as a substitute for sulphuric ether in surgery and midwifery

by James Young Simpson

$65,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition · Signed

Edinburgh; London: Sutherland and Knox, Princes Street; Samuel Highley, 32 Fleet Street, 1847 Postscript dated 15 November 1847 . Second edition, extremely rare first issue, inscribed presentation copy, of the first use of chloroform as an anaesthetic. This is the earliest obtainable version of Simpson’s discovery – the first edition, published two or three days earlier, is known in only two

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