Etherization; with surgical remarks / by John C. Warren.

Boston : William D. Ticknor & Company, Corner of School and Washington Streets, 1848 [©1847]

4 unnumbered pages, v, 3 unnumbered pages, 100 pages ; 19 cm (12mo)

Cordasco 40-1306

Waller 10121

Norman 2186

Eimas: Heirs of Hippocrates 1345

Collation includes one preliminary blank leaf

T.p. verso: "Boston; printed by William Chadwick, No. 18, Exchange Street"

Warren was the Massachusetts General Hospital surgeon who performed the operation on 16 October 1846 in which W.T.G. Morton gave the first public demonstration of the use of ether as an anaesthetic

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Sotheby's (via Phelps) Note: Publishers' advertisments (4 pp.) bound in after p. 100. Binding: Original blind-stamped cloth