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(ANESTHESIA.) Morton, W. T. G. Remarks on the Proper Mode of Administering Sulphuric Ether by Inhalation. 44 pages, including half-title; text complete, lacking only unnumbered final leaf with "Opinions of the Press." 8vo, 169x106 mm, 20th-century blue buckram, spine faded; contents toned, portion of blank lower margin excised from 2 leaves. Boston: Dutton and Wentworth, 1847
first edition of a booklet containing complete instructions for administering ether, "one of the rarest and most important of Morton's publications"--Fulton & Stanton IV.22. Garrison-Morton 5653; not in Howell.
