Artificial Anaesthesia and Anaesthetics

Henry M. Lyman

New York: William Wood & Company, 1881. 338 pp. Approximately 6 x 9". Brown cloth over boards with stamped black and gilt decoration and lettering on spine and cover, worn at spine ends, slight corner bumping, foxing throughout, some engraved illustrations, many charts, helpful index, in very good + condition.

This is Volume 17 of Wood's Library of Standard Medical Authors. It gives the history of anaesthesia, what substances can comprise anaesthetics, and anaesthesia by rapid respiration with lots of case studies (both human and animal), some of which included numbness, vomiting, and death.

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