Oct 17, 2022
In October 1846, the world discovered the miracle of surgical
anesthesia... and then four men spent the next two decades fighting
over which one of them deserved all of the credit.
Transcript, sources, links and more at
https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/kings-of-pain/
Key sources for this episode include Julie Fenster's ETHER DAY:
THE STRANGE TALE OF AMERICA'S GREATEST MEDICAL DISCOVERY AND THE
HAUNTED MEN WHO MADE IT; Richard Wolfe's I AWAKEN TO
GLORY: ESSAYS CELEBRATING THE SESQUICENTENNIAL OF THE DISCOVERY OF
ANESTHESIA BY HORACE WELLS; Richard Wolfe's TARNISHED
IDOL: WILLIAM T.G. MORTON AND THE INTRODUCTION OF SURGICAL
ANESTHESIA; and Richard Wolfe's CHARLES THOMAS JACKSON:
THE HEAD BEHIND THE HANDS.
Presented by #13 (Dave White) Artist. Lover. Social Media
Unfluencer. Acknowledged authority on lucrative bogs. Dave White is
all this and more. But most days he's a web developer, graphic
designer, and cartoonist. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, his
two cats, and his crippling obsession with strange trivia.
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