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(ANESTHESIA.) Bartholin, Thomas. De nivis usu medico observationes variae . . . Accessit D. Erasmi Bartholini de figura nivis dissertatio. Parts 1 and 2 (of 3) in one volume. Engraved plate of snowflakes and crystal. [24], 232, [8]; [6], 42 pages; lacks the 15-page bibliography of works by Thomas Bartholin at end. 8vo, contemporary vellum, few stains on front cover; contents browned. Copenhagen: Matthias Godicchius for Peter Haubold, 1661
First edition. "Chapter XXII of this historically important book makes the first known mention of the use of mixtures of ice and snow for freezing to produce surgical anesthesia . . . The treatise on snow crystals, by Bartholin's younger brother, Erasmus, is the earliest publication on crystallography, and preceded Boyle on gems (1672) by eleven years"--Heirs of Hippocrates 516. Garrison-Morton 5645.90; Krivatsy 815; Waller 726.
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