Tarnished Idol: William Thomas Green Morton and the Introduction of Surgical Anesthesia : a Chronicle of the Ether Controversy
- ISBN-10
- 0930405811
- ISBN-13
- 9780930405816
- Category
- Anesthesia
- Pages
- 672
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001
- Publisher
- Norman Publishing
- Author
- Richard J. Wolfe
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William Thomas Green Morton and the Introduction of Surgical Anesthesia : a Chronicle of the Ether Controversy Richard J. ... he incurred the wrath of the Abolitionists by returning in 1852 a runaway Negro , Thomas Sims , to slavery .
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