Specification of Walter Blundell
Subtitle: apparatus for applying freezing mixtures to parts of the human body preparatory to surgical operations
Publisher: Great Seal Patent Office; George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode)
Published: 1855
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: General Surgery; Anesthesia; Freezing
Description: Patent for improvements on a device, patented by Blundell earlier that year, which supplies near freezing liquid "for the purpose of totally or partially benumbing the sense of feeling at the desired part of the human body".
Notes: At head of title: A.D. 1854. No. 2494.

"Walter Blundell, of no.29, New Broad Street, in the city of London, surgeon dentist".