Ether Day: The Strange Tale of America's Greatest Medical Discovery and The Haunted Men Who Made It by Julie M. Fenster

Ether Day: The Strange Tale of America's Greatest Medical Discovery and The Haunted Men Who Made It

Julie M. Fenster

288 pages first pub 2001 (view editions)

nonfiction history science informative reflective slow-paced
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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 "dis...

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