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Author Fenster, J. M. (Julie M.)

Title Ether day : the strange tale of America's greatest medical discovery and the haunted men who made it / Julie M. Fenster.

Publication Info. New York, NY : HarperCollins Publishers, [2001]
©2001
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Location Call No. Status
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  617.96 FEN    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  617.96 FENSTER    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  617.96 FENSTER    Check Shelf
Order cancelled for West Hartford Public Library.
Edition First edition.
Description viii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-266) and index.
Contents Machine generated contents note: PROLOGUE The Laughing-GasJoke -- 1 Ether Day -- 2 A Blank Whirlwind of Emotion -- 3 The Hilarity Before Ether Day -- 4 The Entertainment Is Scientific -- 5 Unwilling Collaboration -- 6 Silence in the Dome -- 7 The Confidence Man -- 8 Next What? -- 9 Power Struggle -- 10 A World Waiting -- 11 Repelled by a Common Moment -- 12 Charles Jackson's Universe -- 13 Horace Wells in Paris -- 14 Chlory -- 15 All Alone at the Tombs -- 16 In the Lobby of the Willard Hotel -- 17 Emerson's Wife's Brother -- 18 Morton's Civil War -- 19 Poison in the Beams -- 20 In Dr. Jackson's Scrapbook.
Subject Anesthesia -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Ether -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Anesthesia -- history -- United States.
Ether -- history -- United States.
History -- 19th Century -- United States.
ISBN 0060195231 alkaline paper
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