Ether Day: The Strange Tale of America's Greatest Medical Discovery and The Haunted Men Who Made It
By Julie M. Fenster.
Description
Ether Day is the unpredictable story of America's first major scientific discovery -- the use of anesthesia -- told in an absorbing narrative that traces the dawn of modern surgery through the lives of three extraordinary men. Ironically, the "discovery" was really no discovery at all: Ether and nitrous oxide had been known for more than forty years to cause insensitivity to pain, yet, with names like "laughing gas," they were used almost solely for entertainment. Meanwhile, patients still underwent operations during which they saw, heard, and felt every cut the sur...
ISBN(s)
0060195231, 9780060195236
