Semi-centennial of anesthesia : addresses, 1896

Catalog Record: Semi-centennial of anesthesia : addresses, 1896

Title: Semi-centennial of anesthesia : addresses.

AccessKey: agrp

WLM Call Number: WO 211 Se52 1896 RB

Publisher: [Boston : Damrell and Upham?], 1896.

Physical Descrip 337- 386 p. : 29 cm.

Language: eng

Subject: Anesthesia – history – Addresses, Essays, Lectures.
Subject: Poetry.

Type of Trace: Printed In
Title: Boston medical and surgical journal, vol. 135, no. 16, Oct. 15 1896.

Abstract: Contains articles by several physicians on the 50th anniversary of Morton’s demonstration. Also appeared in pamphlet form in 1897.

Content Notes: Reminiscences of 1846 / by Robert T. Davis (p. 377-378) — Surgery before the days of anesthesia / by John Ashhurst (p. 378-380) — What has anasthesia [sic.] done for surgery? / by David W. Cheever — Anesthesia in obstetrics / by J.P. Reynolds — The surgery of the future / by Charles McBurney — Poem : the birth and death of pain / by S. Weir Mitchell.

General Notes: ” … delivered October 16, 1896, at the Commemoration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the First Public Demonstration of Surgical Anesthesia”–footnotes.

General Notes: Digitized by Northern Micrographics August 23, 2010.