Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-266) and index.
Contents
Prologue: The Laughing-Gas Joke -- 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 -- Epilogue: Since Ether Day.
