Author: ROBINSON, VICTOR (1886-1947)
Title: Victory over Pain : a history of anesthesia
Description: London : Sigma 1947. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine. very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper. now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and sharp-cornered. by Victor Robinson. With plates. Physical description: xiv. 338p : ill ; 22cm. Notes: REVIEW COPY with letter- headed and review slip. Reviewer: Dr. Ashworth Underwood. Includes bibliography and index. Summary: This book is an account of the story of anaesthesia. beginning in the half-dawn of primitive man. and unfolding still. Dr. Robinson records and illuminates the struggle to achieve relief from pain by the ancient peoples of the East and the West; he describes the development of the medieval sleeping sponge and the discovery of sulphuric ether in the sixteenth century. though for hundreds of years its pain relieving properties remained unrecognised. He tells how nearly. in the 17th and 18th centuries. the secrets of the perfect anaesthesia were revealed. and he records excitingly and lucidly their final discovery and the terrible story of personal greed. tragedy and suicide that followed. Subject: Anesthesia - Analgesia - History. Anesthetics - history. History of Medicine. Anaesthesia - History. Anesthesiology. history. Genre: text. Illustrated. Weight in Kg appr.:

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