Chauncey D. Leake
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Chauncey Depew Leake was an American
pharmacologist, medical historian and ethicist. Leake received a bachelor’s degree with majors in biology, chemistry, and philosophy from Princeton University
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Leake discovered the anaesthetic divinyl ether and provided a translation of De motu cordis after being treated by the ophthalmologist Carl Koller.
"Victory Over Pain-A History of Anaesthesia" by Victor Robinson
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pharmacologist, medical historian and ethicist. Leake received a bachelor’s degree with majors in biology, chemistry, and philosophy from Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
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Leake discovered the anaesthetic divinyl ether and provided a translation of De motu cordis after being treated by the ophthalmologist Carl Koller.
External links
- http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/manuscripts/ead/leake.html
- The old Egyptian medical papyri Logan Clendening lecture on the history and philosophy of medicine, University of Kansas, 1952. Full-text PDF.
"Victory Over Pain-A History of Anaesthesia" by Victor Robinson