I found this book terribly difficult to get through. I was interested in the topic because two family members suffer from chronic pain. My heart hurts for them. My perspective on this book is also tempered by my years as a medical librarian. I expected this book to be a layman's version of the st...
observed the botanist Francis Darwin, son of Charles Darwin. William T. G. Morton’s tombstone reads, “Inventor and Revealer of Anesthetic Inhalation. Before Whom, in All Time, Surgery was Agony. By Whom Pain in Surgery was Averted and Annulled. Since Whom Science has Control of Pain.” Dr. Morton ...