Trials of a public benefactor, as illustrated in the discovery of etherization

Trials of a public benefactor, as illustrated in the discovery of etherization

Correspondence

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Anesthesia

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894

Rice, Nathan P. (author)

Commissioned by William T. G. Morton, Trials of a public benefactor attempts to provide support for his claim to precedence in the discovery of ether anesthesia. Here, as part of the story, Oliver Wendell Holmes coins the term in a letter to Morton written on November 21, 1846, shortly after the first public demonstrations at Massachusetts General Hospital. Holmes wrote,

Excerpt from Trials of a public benefactor, as illustrated in the discovery of etherization by Nathan P. Rice in which Oliver Wendell Holmes coins the term "anesthesia"

Rice, Nathan P.

Pudney and Russell

1859

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Gift of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes to the Boston Medical Library, 1889