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Tables of Contents for Ether Day
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Illustrations
ix
Prologue The Laughing-Gas Joke
1
4
Ether Day
5
16
A Blank Whirlwind of Emotion
21
12
The Hilarity Before Ether Day
33
20
The Entertainment Is Scientific
53
12
Unwilling Collaboration
65
12
Silence in the Dome
77
4
The Confidence Man
81
14
Next What?
95
11
Power Struggle
106
11
A World Waiting
117
7
Repelled by a Common Moment
124
4
Charles Jackson's Universe
128
18
Horace Wells in Paris
146
18
Chlory
164
12
All Alone at the Tombs
176
11
In the Lobby of the Willard Hotel
187
14
Emerson's Wife's Brother
201
12
Morton's Civil War
213
13
Poison in the Beams
226
4
In Dr. Jackson's Scrapbook
230
10
Epilogue Since Ether Day
240
3
Endnotes
243
22
Selected Bibliography
265
2
Acknowledgments
267
2
Index
269