First Case in Which Sulphuric Ether Was Exhibited by Inhalation in Labor
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Title
First Case in Which Sulphuric Ether Was Exhibited by Inhalation in Labor
Subject
Ether.
Anesthesia in obtetrics.
Keep, Nathan, 1800-1875.
Longfellow, Fanny Appleton, 1817-1861.
Channing, Walter, 1786-1876.
Description
The passage displayed reproduces a letter from Nathan Cooley Keep (1800-1875), recounting the first use of ether anesthesia in labor; the patient was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s wife, Fanny, who gave birth to a daughter on April 7, 1847.
Creator
Keep, Nathan, 1800-1875.
Source
source_collectionname
Channing, Walter, 1786-1876. A treatise on etherization in childbirth. Illustrated by five hundred and eighty-one cases. By Walter Channing ...
Channing, Walter, 1786-1876. A treatise on etherization in childbirth. Illustrated by five hundred and eighty-one cases. By Walter Channing ...
Publisher
Boston, W.D. Ticknor and Company
Date
1848
Date Created
1847-04-14
Format
text
Extent
1 printed page, bound.
Language
English.
Type
text
Identifier
RG732.C36, c. 4, p. 397.
Bibliographic Citation
Channing, Walter, 1786-1876. A treatise on etherization in childbirth. Illustrated by five hundred and eighty-one cases. By Walter Channing ... Boston, W.D. Ticknor and Company, 1848.
Provenance
Gift of James T. Bradlee to the Boston Medical Library, 1907.
Files
Collection
Citation
Keep, Nathan, 1800-1875., “First Case in Which Sulphuric Ether Was Exhibited by Inhalation in Labor,” OnView, accessed April 25, 2024, https://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/items/show/18107.