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 (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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