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Joseph Thomas Clover (1825–1882) was the leading anaesthetist of Victorian England for more than two decades following the death of John Snow in 1858. His reputation as a clinician, inventor and author is remembered in the United Kingdom through the Clover lectures of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Anaesthetists of other countries, however, have little knowledge of his remarkable career beyond identifying a celebrated photographic study of Clover anaesthetizing a seated man while palpating his patient’s pulse. His life is important to us, however, for his history carries anaesthetic practice from its beginnings in 1846 until 1882, when his achievements were the latest advance exactly a century before our meeting.
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Calverley, R.K. (1985). J. T. Clover: A Giant of Victorian Anaesthesia. In: Rupreht, J., van Lieburg, M.J., Lee, J.A., Erdmann, W. (eds) Anaesthesia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69636-7_4
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