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INSCRIBED TO A PIONEER OF SPINAL ANESTHESIA MORTIMER, WILLIAM GOLDEN. Peru: History of Coca. "The Divine Plant" of the Incas. Illustrated. 8vo, original cloth, with white ink shelf number on spine; light dampstaining along top and bottom edges throughout. New York, 1901
"first edition of the greatest work ever published on the coca plant and the history of its use by the Incas and their descendants. Research on the active principle, cocaine, is documented from its isolation in 1859 to the end of the 19th century"--Dailey, Phantastica 194. Garrison-Morton 2040.1. choice association copy, inscribed on the half-title: "To Dr. J. Leonard Corning with the compliments of the Author. Sept. 1907." The American neurologist Corning (1855-1923) demonstrated experimentally that cocaine had a prolonged anesthetic effect when administered subcutaneously. In 1885 he became the first to inject cocaine epidurally, using a canine subject initially and then a human male. See Garrison-Morton 5680 and Keys, page 41.
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