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Title: An inquiry into the origin of modern anaesthesia.
Author: Truman Smith
Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana
Description:
Based on Joseph Sabin’s famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500–1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more.
Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more.
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SourceLibrary: Huntington Library
DocumentID: SABCP03202500
CollectionID: CTRG00-B245
PublicationDate: 18670101
SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin’s Dictionary of books relating to America
Notes: The papers constituting this examination were, with the exception of the last chapter, originally published as communications in The Medical and Surgical Reporter, at Philadelphia, under the ‘nom de plume’ of ‘A Lover of Truth and Justice, ’ and are now re-published with a view to a more extended circulation –P. [3] A reprint of communications published in the ‘Medical and Surgical Reporter, ’ vol. 11, Jan-March, 1864, under the pseudonym of ‘A Lover of Truth and Justice’
Life of Horace Wells, M.D. by P.W. Ellsworth, M.D.: p. [7]-13. Includes a history of the controversy over the discovery of anesthesia by the claimants W. T. G. Morton, Horace Wells, and Charles T. Jackson, with letters, and testimonials on Wells’ behalf, a Senate report of the Hon. Henry Wilson, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Military Affairs, an addendum and an appendix with letters and case studies.
Collation: 165 p, [1] leaf of plates: port.; 23 cm
