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Account of a case of successful amputation of the thigh, during the mesmeric state, without the knowledge of the patient

Read to the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London, on Tuesday, the 22nd of November 1842

by W. Squire Ward & William Topham

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source
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Sir William describes his performance of the mesmerism and Ward gives the details of his operation

Provenance

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Mesmerism, animal magnetism, and hypnosis.

  • Mesmerism, animal magnetism, and hypnosis

    Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive and openlibrary-historical matched “Hypnotism” and “Mesmerism”. Retained metadata contains “mesmeric” in the title, “Mesmerism” in the description, “Hypnotism” in the subject metadata, and 2 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Hypnotism”· via Internet Archive
    • “Mesmerism”· via Internet Archive
    • “Mesmerism”· via Open Library
    • “mesmeric”· in title
    • “Mesmerism”· in description
    • “Hypnotism”· in subject

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Read to the Royal medical and chirurgical society of London, on Tuesday, the 22d of November, 1842

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1842-01-01T00:00:00ZLondon : H. BallièreEnglish—Public digitized item

Read to the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London, on Tuesday, the 22nd of November 1842

Open Library record

1842H. BaillièreEnglish—No ebook

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Cataloging notes

  • Contributing institution: Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
  • Digitization sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Yale University, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Internet Archive institutional collection: americana; medicalheritagelibrary
  • Scanner: Kirtas APT 2400
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openlibrary-work:OL44005557W
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