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Mesmerism in India

and its practical application in surgery and medicine.

by James Esdaile

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Primary source

Cited in Fulton, The centennial of surgical anesthesia, item I.16

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

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

  • Controlled discovery queries from internet-archive, openlibrary, openlibrary-historical, and wellcome matched “Hypnotism”, “hypnotism”, and “Mesmerism”. Retained metadata contains “Mesmerism” in the title, “Hypnotism” in the subject metadata, “Mesmerism” in the subject metadata, and 1 additional metadata match(es).

    • “Hypnotism”· via Internet Archive
    • “Mesmerism”· via Internet Archive
    • “Mesmerism”· via Open Library
    • “Hypnotism”· via Open Library
    • “hypnotism”· via Wellcome Collection
    • “Mesmerism”· in title

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Editions

3 editions cataloged here.

and its practical application in surgery and medicine.

Internet Archive institutional pre-1900 scan

1847Hartford, Conn. : Silas Andrus and Son; S. Andrus and sonEnglish—Public

and its practical application to surgery and medicine

Open Library record

1851Silas Andrus and SonEnglish—No ebook

and its practical application in surgery and medicine

Wellcome Collection bibliographic record

xxvi pages, [27]-259 pages ; 19 cm

1847Silas Andrus and SonEnglish—Public digitized item

Subjects

7 subject headings

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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
  • Open Library reports 3 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Scanner: Kirtas APT 2400
  • Scanner: scribe1.nj.archive.org
Catalog id
openlibrary-work:OL146585W
Edition coverage
Multi source partial
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