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    <mods:title>Trials of a public benefactor, as illustrated in the discovery of etherization</mods:title>
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    <mods:namePart>Rice, Nathan P.</mods:namePart>
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    <mods:dateCreated encoding='w3cdtf' keyDate='yes'>1859</mods:dateCreated>
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  <mods:abstract>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"</mods:abstract>
  <mods:note>Gift of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes to the Boston Medical Library, 1889</mods:note>
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    <mods:topic>Anesthesia</mods:topic>
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    <mods:topic>Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894</mods:topic>
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