[WILLIAMS, CHARLES J.B. 1805-1899.]


CLOVER, JOSPEH THOMAS. 1825-1882. Manuscript notebook, in ink, entitled "Williams's Pathology," 172 pp recto and verso, 4to (230 x 188 mm), London, December 3, 1846 to April 12, 1847, being the hand-written notes of Joseph Thomas Clover recording lectures by Williams at University College Hospital. Contemporary cloth, gilt titles on spine. Wear and staining to covers, minor browning.Joseph Thomas Clover was a pioneer of inhalation anesthesia who entered University College Hospital in London in 1844, where Joseph Lister and Henry Thompson were his fellow students. Clover's notes of lectures delivered by Charles J. B. Williams provide insight into knowledge about diseases of the heart and lungs when anesthesia was first introduced. Much of this manuscript is devoted to diseases of the chest, and there are important sections dealing with auscultation. Williams noted in his autobiography that Clover was one of his students. Clover observed Robert Liston perform the first operation in Europe under ether anesthesia on December 21, 1846 (less than three weeks after his notes began). See Bedford 473-475.