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  • 'Wellcome' Chloroform : when chloroform is the anaesthetic of choice, 'Wellcome' brand Chloroform should always be employed.
  • 'Wellcome' Chloroform : when chloroform is the anaesthetic of choice, 'Wellcome' brand Chloroform should always be employed.
  • Account of a new anaesthetic agent, as a substitute for sulphuric ether in surgery and midwifery / [Sir James Young Simpson].
  • The advantages and accidents of artificial anaesthesia : a manual of anaesthetic agents, and their employment in the treatment of disease / by Laurence Turnbull.
  • M0008129: Key plan for a display of the first surgical operation performed in England with ether as an anaesthetic, carried out by Robert Liston
  • The Pasteur Institute, Kasauli, India: production of the rabies vaccine: a rabbit, under anaesthetic, being infected with rabies by injection in the spine. Photograph, ca. 1910.
  • Early history of the anaesthetic discovery; or painless surgical operations. With letters to and from Sir James Y. Simpson, Dr. Benjamin W. Richardson and Dr. Henry Bennet. Boston versus Hartford / [Robert Hanham Collyer].
  • Percaine "CIBA" : The new local anaesthetic for regional, infiltration, surface and spinal anaesthesia ... not a narcotic. Economical in use. Belongs chemically to a class entirely different from cocaine & its derivatives / Clayton Aniline Co. Ltd.
  • Erythroxylum coca Lam. Erythroxylaceae Coca. Distribution: Peru . Cocaine is extracted from the leaf. It is no longer in the UK Pharmacopoeia (used to be used as a euphoriant in ‘Brompton Mixture’ for terminally ill patients). Cocaine, widely used as a local anaesthetic until 1903, inhibits re-uptake of dopamine and serotonin at brain synapses so these mood elevating chemicals build up and cause a ‘high’. Its use was often fatal. Coca leaf chewing was described by Nicolas Monardes (1569
  • Anaesthetics: Morton's Ether Inhaler
  • Anaesthetics: J.T. Clover
  • Anaesthetics ancient and modern, a historica
  • The administration of chloroform and of other anaesthetics.
  • Anaesthetics ancient and modern : an historical sketch of anaesthesia.
  • Dr. D. Buxton's apparatus for giving nitrous oxide, from his, Anaesthetics.
  • Anaesthetics and their administration : a manual for medical and dental practitioners and students.
  • Anaesthetics and their administration : a text-book / by the late Sir Frederic W. Hewitt.
  • Anaesthetics and their administration : a text-book / by the late Sir Frederic W. Hewitt.
  • Anaesthetics and their administration : a text-book / by the late Sir Frederic W. Hewitt.
  • Anaesthetics and their administration : a text-book / by the late Sir Frederic W. Hewitt.
  • Anaesthetics and their administration : a text-book / by the late Sir Frederic W. Hewitt.
  • Anaesthetics and their administration : a text-book / by the late Sir Frederic W. Hewitt.
  • Anaesthetics and their administration : a text-book / by the late Sir Frederic W. Hewitt.
  • Anaesthetics and their administration : a text-book for medical and dental practitioners and students / by Frederic W. Hewitt.
  • Anaesthetics and their administration : a text-book for medical and dental practitioners and students / by Frederic W. Hewitt.
  • Anaesthetics and their administration : a text-book for medical and dental practitioners and students / by Frederic W. Hewitt.
  • Anaesthetics and their administration : a text-book for medical and dental practitioners and students / by Frederic W. Hewitt.
  • Anaesthetics and their administration : a text-book for medical and dental practitioners and students / by Frederic W. Hewitt.
  • On chloroform and other anaesthetics : their action and administration / by John Snow ; edited, with a memoir of the Author, by Benjamin W. Richardson.
  • Anæsthetics : their uses and administration / by Dudley Wilmot Buxton.