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Medicine; From Boston to Dumfries; The First Surgical Use of Anaesthetic Ether in the Old World, Thomas W. Baillie, 1966, Signed copy

Medicine; From Boston to Dumfries; The First Surgical Use of Anaesthetic Ether in the Old World, Thomas W. Baillie, 1966, Signed copy

LAN9323
$27.00 - $27.00
$27.00
$27.00 - $27.00
$27.00

This book tells the story of how, after the first use of clinical anaesthesia at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1846, the first public demonstration of the technique outside of the USA, took place in a peripheral hospital in the south-west of Scotland.

From Boston to Dumfries; The First Surgical Use of Anaesthetic Ether in the Old World. By Thomas W. Baillie, M.D., F.F.A.R.C.S., D.A., Consultant Anaesthetist, Dumfries and Galloway Royal Infirmary.

Privately Published and printed by Robert Dinwiddie & Co., Ltd., Dumfries, 1966. First edition. Inscribed by the author to the first free endpaper and dated to 24th October 1966. Also with previous owner's pencil inscription to the same spread with some further details about the book.

A very good black cloth hardback with gilt decoration to front. Cover with a few minor wear marks (else book would be fine). Soundly bound.

Text is bright and clean throughout. 

Text in English.

Prelims + 36pp. Illustrated.

Weight: approximately 162g (unpacked). 

Dimensions:

Approximately 228mm tall x 143mm wide x 6mm deep.