FLOURENS, MARIE JEAN PIERRE. - THE ANAESTHETC EFFECT OF CHLOROFORM DISCOVERED.

Note touchant l'action de l'éther sur les centres nerveux.

(Paris, Bachelier), 1847. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 24, No. 10. Pp. (337-) 396. (Entire issue offered). Flourens' paper: pp. 340-44. A small paperflaw in inner margin on the first leaf. Clean and fine.

First printing of groundbreaking paper on anaesthesia, disclosing that chloroform had an anaesthetic effect. Flourens made the discovery before James Young Simpson.

"Little notice seems to have been taken of his paper, but later the same year Simpson independently demonstrated the value of chloroform."(Garrison & Morton, 5654.

Order-nr.: 49524