W. T. G. Morton's Memoir on Sulphuric Ether, 1847
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could delineate Cushing's character and characteristics quite as well as has Cushing himself. The reader may well wish that more of such material had been included. The book is singularly free of observable technical errors, the most significant one is the statement on page 88 where we find that Cushing sailed from Boston on the 30th of June to arrive (says Cushing) "in Liverpool harbor on June 1 1." It is to be noted that the author ends his preface with a quotation, a very happily expressed quotation, which appeared in print in 1924 and are the words with which Harvey Cushing closed his preface to the Life of Sir William Os/er. Harey Cushing, a Biography appears as Publication No. 13 from the Historical Library of the Yale Medical Library. -GEO. H. SMITH
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine
دوره 19 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 1946