Napoleon III
- Clover, Joseph Thomas, 1825-1882.
- Date:
- 1873
- Reference:
- MS.1693
- Part of:
- Clover, Joseph Thomas (1825-1882)
- Archives and manuscripts
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Description
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.
Publication/Creation
1873
Physical description
1 volume 3 ll. folio. 261/2 x 201/2 cm. Unbound. Written on the rectos only.
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Acquisition note
Presented 1935.
Finding aids
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).
Ownership note
From the Dudley Buxton Collection.
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Accession number
- 79763