Lot
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Lot 105
Documents - Scotland - Fife - Kinross. William Flockhart (18...
Hammer
£22
Documents - Scotland - Fife - Kinross. William Flockhart (1808-1871) was a Scottish Chemist, a Pharmacist. 1872. Small archive of letters, receipts, farming bills, livestock sales, etc. relating to the Late William Flockhart of Annacroich, Kinross. (35 items).
William Flockhart, L.R.C.S.E. (1808-1871) was a Scottish chemist, a pharmacist who provided chloroform to Doctor (later Sir) James Young Simpson for his anaesthesia experiment at 52 Queen Street, Edinburgh on 4 November 1847. This was the first use of this chemical on humans. Flockhart died at Annacroich in August 1871, aged 62.
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