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- catalog abstract "Details how three men -- an ingenious dentist from Boston, his brilliant colleague from Harvard, and a mentally unstable geologist -- combined efforts and pioneered the use of ether, an event that put an end to pain during surgery.".
- catalog contributor b12184762.
- catalog coverage "United States".
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description "Details how three men -- an ingenious dentist from Boston, his brilliant colleague from Harvard, and a mentally unstable geologist -- combined efforts and pioneered the use of ether, an event that put an end to pain during surgery.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-266) and index.".
- catalog description "Prologue: The laughing-gas joke -- Ether Day -- A blank whirlwind of emotion -- The hilarity before Ether Day -- The entertainment is scientific -- Unwilling collaboration -- Silence in the dome -- The confidence man -- Next what? -- Power struggle -- A world waiting -- Repelled by a common moment -- Charles Jackson's universe -- Horace Wells in Paris -- Chlory -- All alone at the Tombs -- In the lobby of the Willard Hotel -- Emerson's wife's brother -- Morton's Civil War -- Poison in the beams -- In Dr. Jackson's scrapbook -- Epilogue: Since Ether Day.".
- catalog extent "viii, 278 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0060195231 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : HarperCollins,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "2001 L-087".
- catalog subject "617.9/6/097309034 21".
- catalog subject "Anesthesia United States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Anesthesia United States History.".
- catalog subject "Anesthesia history".
- catalog subject "Ether United States History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Ether United States History.".
- catalog subject "Ether history".
- catalog subject "History, 19th Century United States.".
- catalog subject "History, 19th Century".
- catalog subject "RD80.3 .F46 2001".
- catalog subject "WO 211 AA1 F341e 2001".
- catalog tableOfContents "Prologue: The laughing-gas joke -- Ether Day -- A blank whirlwind of emotion -- The hilarity before Ether Day -- The entertainment is scientific -- Unwilling collaboration -- Silence in the dome -- The confidence man -- Next what? -- Power struggle -- A world waiting -- Repelled by a common moment -- Charles Jackson's universe -- Horace Wells in Paris -- Chlory -- All alone at the Tombs -- In the lobby of the Willard Hotel -- Emerson's wife's brother -- Morton's Civil War -- Poison in the beams -- In Dr. Jackson's scrapbook -- Epilogue: Since Ether Day.".
- catalog title "Ether day : the strange tale of America's greatest medical discovery and the haunted men who made it / Julie M. Fenster.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".