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  • The Influence of Romantic Literature on the Medical Understanding of Pain and Suffering—The Stimulus to the Discovery of Anesthesia
  • Emanuel M. Papper
Emanuel M. Papper
Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, University of Miami, P.O. Box 016370, Miami, Florida 33101

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