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‘This records in detail the case of a 42­year­old laborer with ulcerated knee
who while mesmerized had his leg amputated by W. Squire Ward. A lively
verbal tilt followed when the case was reported, and the bulk of the book is
taken up with details of the controversy which Elliotson set down with all the
zeal of a Scottish Covenanter. Other cases are then described. On page 65
Elliotson uses the word “anaesthesia”.’ (Fulton and Stanton pp. 16–17.)
The former owner of this copy, who evidently read the text closely, one Dr
Inglis of Halifax, is presumbly James Inglis (1813–1851) who specialised in
the treatment of goiter. There is a photographic portrait of him by Hill and
Adamson in the George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, dated between 1843
and 1847 (GEH NEG: 42820).
John F. Fulton and Madeline E. Stanton, The centennial of Surgical Anesthesia
(1946).
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ENT, George (1604–1689)
Antidiatribe [Greek] sive animadversiones in Malachiae
Thrustoni, M.D. Diatribam de respirationis usu primario.
London: J. M. for William Bromwich, 1679.
8vo: p2 B–P4 (blank P4), 110 leaves, pp. [4] 214 [2].
Engraved frontispiece portrait by R. White.
169 x 106. Light soiling and paper discolouration.
Binding: Contemporary black morocco, gilt panelled sides, gilt spine,
marbled endleaves, gilt edges. Spine rubbed, corners worn.
Provenance: Early shelf mark 1:0.1492 on endleaf; nineteenth­century
signature J. Rennsay; Bernard Quaritch Ltd (cost code on rear
pastedown).
First edition. Wing E3134; ESTC R2864; Wellcome II, p. 586;
Krivatsy 3665.
In the introduction to his De respiratione of 1670, Malachi Thruston had
implied that his work had been approved by Ent, who had just been elected
president of the College of Physicians. This was probably the reason that Ent
took the trouble to write this learned reply, a wide ranging review of research
on respiration with reference to the works of Thomas Willis, Malpighi, Harvey,
Boyle, Hooke and other contemporary physiologists. He also discusses his
own Apologia pro circulatione sanguinis (1641) in defence of Harvey.
An original member of the Royal Society, Ent was a close friend of William
Harvey and persuaded him to publish De generatio animalium in 1650, to which
he contributed an introduction. He was also intimate with Hooke and refers to
Hooke’s work on respiration and combustion in Micrographia (1665). Hooke
came very close to the discovery of oxygen. He discovered that something in
the air was used up both in combustion and respiration, but the importance
of this discovery was ignored for over a hundred years.