Published by the Boston Medical Library/ Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine; WPI sole commercial distributer
“ . . . Wolfe has gathered a seemingly infinite number of facts to document a painting that is little known…At the confluence of medicine and art history, we need a meticulous standard of scholarship that is wedded to the fidelity of the facts. Wolfe’s monograph provides the model . . . ” —NEJM, 1994 (July 28)
“The title doesn’t quite capture what the reader finds between the covers. Mr. Wolfe has written a detective story about the origin of Robert C. Hinckley’s 8-by-10 foot painting of the first ether anesthesia . . . This exhaustively researched treatise has 120 pages of text, 26 illustrations, and a 45-page appendix containing an extensive bibliography. The index is comprehensive.” —JAMA, 1994, 271(20):1623–1624