A treatise on etherization in childbirth. Illustrated by five hundred and eighty-one cases

Boston: William D. Ticknor and Company, 1848. FIRST EDITION. With the 8-page publisher's brochure laid into the front of the book containing excellent reviews. Original green-stamped cloth. A fine, crisp copy with a presentation inscription from the author on the fly-leaf. First edition of an American classic on the earliest use of anaesthesia in obstetrics. Channing was one of the first to use ether anesthesia in maternity cases. The present work was founded on nearly 600 cases in his own practice, and was considered daring to publish at that time.

Channing (1786-1876), the first professor of midwifery at Harvard, was one of America's most eminent obstetric teachers. He adopted the use of ether in childbirth after the news of Simpson and Dubois had crossed the Atlantic a year earlier. This work is of vast importance because it contained a critical study and analysis of many cases in his own practice. Therefore, through his influence, the use of ether in childbirth was successfully used in this country.