SOUBEIRAN, EUGÈNE - THE DISCOVERY OF CHLOROFORM.

Recherches sur quelques Combinaisons du Chlore.

Paris, Crochard, 1831. No wrappers as extracted from "Annales de Chimie et de Physique", 2. Series, Tome 48. Titlepage to vol. 48. Pp. 113-157. A few brownspots, but fine. Small stamps on verso of titlepage.

First appearance of an importent paper in chemistry and medicine as it for the first time relates the finding of Chloroform, which some years later was proved to have anaesthetic effects and was introduced in chirurgy in 1848 by Simpson.
Justus von Liebig, Souberain and Guthrie independently discovered Chloroform in 1831, but Souberain was the first to publish his results. - Garrison & Morton No. 1851. - Gedeon "Science and Technology in Medicine" 36.7.

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