ANESTHESIA US 32nd Congress 2nd Session Statements of Wm

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WITH A SIGNED INSCRIPTION FROM MORTON (ANESTHESIA.) U.S. 32nd Congress, 2nd Session. Statements, supported by Evidence, of Wm. T. G. Morton, M.D. on his Claim to the Discovery of the Anaesthetic Properties of Ether, submitted to the . . . Select Committee appointed by the Senate . . . January 21, 1853. 582; [2], 135 pages. 2 parts in one volume. 8vo, contemporary 1/2 diced calf gilt, spine ends slightly chipped, front joint cracked, front hinge reinforced, portion of rear cover fore edge chipped; contents clean. 19th-century stamps of the Mercantile Library, New York, on title and endpapers. Washington, 1853

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First edition. "A compendium of testimonies, hearings, investigations, etc., both favorable and unfavorable to Morton's claim, including reprints of the 1852 Majority and Minority Committee Reports, the latter supplemented by adverse marginal notes" (Howell). The 135-page appendix contains testimony relating to the competing claim by Horace Wells. Fulton-Stanton IV.76; Howell 222; Osler 1411.
Bound with: U.S. 32nd Congress, 2nd Session, Rep. Com. No. 421. Report [of Mr. Walker as chairman of the Select Committee]. 33 (of 39) pages; lacks the last 3 leaves (Memorial of the Surgeons and Physicians of the Massachusetts General Hospital . . . in Support of . . . Morton). Fulton-Stanton IV.75; Osler 1412.
Inscribed and signed by Morton on the front pastedown to the Mercantile Library Association of New York City, with a few letters in the top line partly obscured by tape remnant, and the initial G. in Morton's signature obliterated.