Napoleon III

Notes on the details of the operation, and of the last hours of Napoleon III. Author's holograph MS. The account is dated from 26 December, 1872 to 9 January, 1873, when the Emperor died at 10.45 a.m. after several operations of lithotrity performed by Sir Henry Thompson [1820-1904]: Clover was the anaesthetist, and administered chloroform. Produced in London.

1873

1 volume 3 ll. folio. 261/2 x 201/2 cm. Unbound. Written on the rectos only.

Presented 1935.

From the Dudley Buxton Collection.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).