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Account of a case of successful amputation of the thigh, during the mesmeric state, without the knowledge of the patient: read to the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London, on Tuesday, the 22nd of November, 1842. London: Baillière, 1842.
The original account of the operation described by Elliotson in his Numerous Cases. It was the first use of animal magnetism as a surgical anaesthesia in England. Topham was the magnetizer; Ward the surgeon. The painless operation was described in an address delivered to the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society of London and then published in this form. The resulting controversy is related in Elliotson’s book.
(Crabtree, 464)
Bound with other works. Binder's title: Tracts on mesmerism.