COCAINE IN ANESTHESIA.


KOLLER, CARL. 1857-1944. Group of items related to Cocaine and its use as a local anesthetic, comprising: 1. Autograph Letter Signed ("Carl Koller"), to Dr. Edward Collins, informing his colleague that has settled in New York, 1 p, 8vo, New York, [1888-89], folded, minor staining. 2. BECKER, HORTENSE KOLLER. Autograph Letter Signed ("Hortense K. Becker"), to Charles G. Roland, stating that she could not provide copies of her father's articles, 1 p, 8vo, Highland Park, IL, November 4, 1964, adhesive stains.3. ---. "Carl Koller and Cocaine." [Offprint from:] The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, Vol 32, pp 309-373, 1963. Publisher's printed wrappers. Glue residue on inside front wrapper from letter previously laid down (see item 2 above).4. MORTIMER, W. GOLDEN, Peru. History of Coca "The Divine Plant" of the Incas. New York: J.H. Vail & Co., 1901. Illustrations in text. Publisher's cloth gilt. Shelfwear. Garrison-Morton 2040.1.5. KNAPP, H. Cocaine and Its Use in Ophthalmic and General Surgery. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1885. Contemporary brown cloth gilt. Top cover detached, first two blank leaves loose, U.S. Patent Office library markings. Garrison-Morton 8655.6. CORNING, J. LEONARD. Local Anaesthesia. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1886. Publisher's brown cloth gilt. Rubbed, spine label lacking, ink notations on copyright page.7. FINK, RAYMOND. "Leaves and Needles: The Introduction of Surgical Local Anesthesia." [Reprinted from:] Anesthesiology, volume 63, number 1, July 1985. Without wrappers or binding. Signed by the author.8. HERSCHFELD, JERRY J. "Classics in Dental History. Carl Koller and the Discovery of Local Anesthesia." [Reprinted from:] Bulletin of the History of Dentistry, volume 34, number 2, October 1986. Signed by the author.Carl Koller writes to Dr. Edward Treacher Collins, thanking him for his hospitality in London. Edward Treacher Collins (1862-1932) was house surgeon at the Moorsfield Eye Hospital from 1884 to 1887, when Koller, an ophthalmologist in Vienna, visited the institution. One of Koller's papers was translated by Knapp into English and published by American surgeons who had recently experimented with cocaine as a local anesthetic.