Ether day : the strange tale of America's greatest medical discovery and the haunted men who made it /
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| Author / Creator: | Fenster, J. M. (Julie M.) |
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | New York : HarperCollins, c2001. |
| Description: | viii, 278 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4479737 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- 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
- Endnotes
- Selected Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index
