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Category - Non Fiction / Science
Format - Hardcover
Condition - Good
Listed - A year ago
Views - 1
Ships From - California
Est. Publication Date - Jul 2001
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The riveting story of the three extraordinary men behind the medical advance of using anesthesia for surgery. William Morton, Horace Wells, and Charles Jackson: a con man, a dreamer, and an intellectual. After Morton patented the discovery, the battle that ensued was so bitter that it sent all three men spiraling out of control — at the same time that anesthetics began saving countless lives.
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Ether Day: The Strange Tale of America's Greatest Medical Discovery and the Haunted Men Who Made It
ISBN: 9780060195236
Publisher 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 o...
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