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On cocaine and its use in ophthalmic and general surgery.

Publication Details

Arch. Ophthalmol., 13, 402-448. 1884 CE.

Knapp translated Koller's paper (No. 5678) into English and with the English translation published a large amount of supplementary material by American surgeons who had recently experimented with cocaine as a local anesthetic. In 1885 Knapp's paper was republished in book form as Cocaine and its use in opthalmic and general surgery...With supplementary contributions by Drs. F. H. Bosworth, R. J. Hall, E. L. Keyes, H. Knapp, and Wm. M. Polk. (New York: G. P. Putman's Sons, 1885). Digital facsimile of the book-form version from the Internet Archive at this link.

Thematic Classifications

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Entry Number#8655
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/10832
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLon-cocaine-and-its-use-in-ophthalmic-and-general-surgery-arch-ophthalmol-188413402-448

Geographic Context

Mentioned in annotation: New York