Oct 17, 2011 - Sale 2256

Sale 2256 - Lot 185

Price Realized: $ 1,140
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
CHANNING, WALTER. Two Cases of Inhalation of Ether in Instrumental Labor [caption title]. 11 pages. 8vo, original wrappers, covers and contents slightly wrinkled, with faint vertical crease; light dampstain in upper margins, correction in ink (by Channing?) on page 11. [Boston, 1847]
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first separate edition of papers originally published in The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, Volume 36, pages 313-18 and 335-37. Front wrapper inscribed: "Dr. Dale, from his friend the writer." "Channing was the chief American proponent of the use of anesthesia in childbirth. He introduced ether anesthesia into his obstetrical practice shortly after its first public demonstration in October 1846"--Norman 440. Cutter & Viets, pages 167-68; Fulton & Stanton VII.45-46 (not noting the offprint edition).