Specification of Charles Thomas Robert Prynn
Subtitle: apparatus for benumbing the human frame previous to the performance of surgical operations
Publisher: Great Seal Patent Office
Published: 1857
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Local Anesthesia; Freezing; General Surgery
Description: Patent for numbing the body by "an inexhaustable stream of freezing liquid through thin tubular metal" prior to surgery.
Notes: Cover title.

At head of title: A.D. 1857. No. 1173.

"Charles Thomas Robert Prynn, of Newton Abbot, in the county of Devon."