Lot 482
Chloroform - Snow, John
Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 16 January 2013 at 10:00 GMT
£375
Description
On chloroform and other anaesthetics: their action and administration. London: J. Churchill, 1858. First edition, 8vo, 2 illustrations, contemporary half calf, several RCSI library stamps and blindstamps, light dampstaining to lower/fore margins, worn, lower cover detached
Footnote
Note: John Snow, pioneer in the adoption of anaesthesia and medical hygiene. He is considered to be one of the fathers of modern epidemiology, because of his work in tracing the source of a cholera outbreak in Soho, England, in 1854.