Archer WH. Chronological history of Horace Wells, discoverer of anesthesia, 1939.

Catalog Record: Archer WH. Chronological history of Horace Wells, discoverer of anesthesia, 1939.  

Title: Chronological history of Horace Wells, discoverer of anesthesia / by W. Harry Archer.

AccessKey: abyz

Author: Archer, W. Harry (William Harry).

WLM Call Number: WO 211 E81 W4a RB

Accession NO.: 786

Publisher: Pittsburgh : A.R. Plantz, 1939.

Physical Description: [2], 16 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Provenance: Signed with compliments of the author.

Subject: Wells, Horace, 1815-1848.
Subject: Ether Controversy – letter.
Subject: Anesthesia – history.
Subject: Wells, Horace – Biography.

Abstract: Archer utilized material never before available from Horace Wells’ daybook to elicit the fact that Wells lectured and demonstrated nitrous oxide anesthesia sometime in January 1845.

Content Notes: This item contains the A.R. Plantz publication followed by the reprint from the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, v.7(10), 1939 p.1140-1169. The following are also included: Historical notes on Horace Wells [reprinted from Dental Rays, v.14(3), 1939] – The history of anesthesia [reprinted from Proceedings of the Dental Centenary Celebration, Mar. 1940] – The discovery of anesthesia: analysis of the contributions of Davy, Faraday, Hickman, Long, Wells, Morton and Jackson [reprinted from Anesthesia and Analgesia, Mar.-Apr. 1942].

General Notes: Read at the 17th General Meeting of the International Association for Dental Research, Cleveland, Ohio, March 1939.

General Notes: Digitized by Northern Micrographics May 6, 2009.

General Notes: Subsequently published in the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, v. 7(10): 1939.