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Volume 331:281 July 28, 1994 Number 4
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Robert C. Hinckley and the Recreation of "The First Operation under Ether. "

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By Richard J. Wolfe. 182 pp., illustrated. Boston, Boston Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, 1993. $22..

There are times, however rare, when the reader takes in a text while wondering about the imaginative life of its dedicated author. Such is the case with Richard Wolfe's reconstruction of Robert Hinckley's "The First Operation under Ether." Wolfe has gathered a seemingly infinite number of facts to document a painting that is little known -- or so this reviewer thought until Wolfe set the record straight. Hinckley's painting is "almost a model of a surgical operation and as such is probably reproduced more in print than any other American painting in its class." It hangs in the lobby of . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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