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TURNER (MATTHEW) An Account of the Extraordinary Medicinal Fluid, called Æther, [Liverpool], John Sadler, 1761
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TURNER (MATTHEW)
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A VERY GOOD COPY OF THIS RARE PAMPHLET ON THE PROPERTIES AND HISTORY OF ETHER. Turner was a Liverpuddlian chemist and surgeon who 'manufactured and dispensed sulfuric ether as a remedy for headache, vertigo, epilepsy, gout and rheumatism, palsy and digestive disorders; for most of these ailments, ether was to be taken orally, but for some, such as headache, Turner also recommended that it be "snuff[ed] ... up the Nostrils." With this recommendation of the inhalation of ether for killing pain, Turner has a place in the pre-history of anesthesia' (Norman).
There are two variant issues of the second edition: this and the Norman copy (the only other one listed as having been offered at auction in recent years) belong to what is believed to be the earlier issue, without the place of publication on the title but with the Britannia ornament. There is also an undated issue with a London imprint giving the name of J. Wilkie as the printer, while the first edition seems to be a 2-page broadside published in 1760.

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