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ANAESTHESIA]. CHANNING, Walter. Two Cases of Inhalation of Ether in Instrumental Labor . [Boston, 1847]. 8 o . Original tan printed wrappers. Provenance : James Jackson (1777-1867), professor at Boston Medical School, who wrote on alcoholic neuritis (presentation inscription from the author on the front wrapper). FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY TO JAMES JACKSON. Norman 440. -- CHANNING. A Treatise on Etherization in Childbirth . Boston, 1848. 8 o . Original cloth. FIRST EDITION. Garrison-Morton 5661; Norman 441. -- WARREN, Edward. Some Account of the Letheon: Or, who is the discoverer? Boston, 1847. 8 o . (Title-page with tear tape-repaired [crossing text and discolored from tape]). Stitched sheets. Third edition, first issue. Fulton-Stanton IV.19; Norman 2184. -- WARREN. Some Account of the Letheon... . Boston, 1847. 8 o . (Title with extensive repairs). Later wrappers; cloth folding case. Fulton-Stanton IV.20; Norman 2185. -- WARREN, John Collins Etherization; with Surgical Remarks . Boston, 1848. 12 o . Original brown cloth. FIRST EDITION. Fulton-Stanton VII.156; Norman 2186. -- MORTON, William Thomas Green Rapport des administrateurs de l'Hpital Gnral de Massachusetts; suivi de l'histoire de la dcouverte de l'ther... Cambridge, 1848. 12 o . Original yellow printed wrappers. Second (First American) Edition. VERY RARE. Fulton-Stanton IV.24; Norman 1557. -- GUTHRIE, Samuel. "New Mode of Preparing a Spiritous Solution of Chloric Ether," in: The American Journal of Science and Arts , Vol. XXI, January, 1832, pp. 64-65. New Haven, 1832. 8 o . Contemporary calf (worn, covers detached). FIRST EDITION, journal issue. Garrison-Morton 1850; Norman 959. -- GUTHRIE. "On Pure Chloric Ether," in: The American Journal of Science and Arts , Vol. XXII, July, 1832, pp. 105-06. New Haven, 1832. 8 o . Contemporary half calf (worn, covers detached). FIRST EDITION, journal issue. Norman 960. -- The Transactions of the American Medical Association . Vol. I. Philadelphia, 1848. 8 o . (Dampstained.) Original gray printed wrappers (spine chipped, dampstains). "The first volume of the first journal publication of the American Medical Association, founded in 1847. The 'Report of the committee on surgery' (pp. 159-223) is devoted entirely to surgical anesthesia; it includes a report by Henry J. Bigelow (see lot ***[ HFN 232])" (Norman 42). -- BRAUN, Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm. Die Lokalansthesie, ihre wissenschaftlichen Grundlagen und praktische Anwendung . Leipzig, 1905. 8 o . Illustrated. Original decorated green cloth. Provenance : Hans Scherbel, dentist (bookplate). FIRST EDITION of this important work on local anaesthesia. Garrison-Morton 5691; Norman 334. (10)