Title: Thomae Bartholini de nivis usu medico observationes variae
Description: Text makes first mention of the use of ice and snow for freezing to produce surgical anesthesia. Text by Erasmus Bartholin is earliest known text on crystallography. Operum authoris catalogo is a bibliography of the works of Thomas Bartholin.
Subjects: Cryosurgery, Early works to 1800, Medicine