1987 facsimile of: Snow, Vapour of Ether (orig. 1847)

Facsimile of: On the Inhalation of the Vapour of Ether in Surgical Operations: Containing a Description of the Various Stages of Etherization, and A Statement of the Result of Nearly Eighty Operations in Which Ether has been Employed in St. George’s and University College Hospitals. By John Snow, M.D. Univ. Lond. Fellow of the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, Lecturer on Forensic Medicine. London: John Churchill, Princes Street, Soho. 1847 
 
Appears to be printed by the Japan Society for Medical History (with last few leaves in Japanese). Green cloth over boards, blind stamped, and with gold text on spine and front board. In glassine. Some punctate brown stains in front hinge. Otherwise, excellent. A near fine copy.