Punch,  12 (1847), 141.

The Blessing of Ether

Anon

Genre:

Poetry, Drollery

Subjects:

Anaesthesia, Surgery


    The poet praises the benefits of ether because it removed his 'emotions distressing' on seeing a dentist's forceps.



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