Excerpt from A Reply to Dr. Jacob Bigelow's Second Letter At the present time three kinds of anaesthetics are principally and specially used in practice, namely 1. Nitrous oxide gas, now, I believe, employed extensively in den tal surgery, since. It was reintroduced a few years ago by Dr. Evans, of Paris; but originally suggested by Sir Humphrey Davy, in 1800, and practically and successfully employed by Dr. Horace Wells, in Hartford, in 1844. Sulphuric ether, first used by Dr. Morton, at Boston, in 1846. Chloroform, ...
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Excerpt from A Reply to Dr. Jacob Bigelow's Second Letter At the present time three kinds of anaesthetics are principally and specially used in practice, namely 1. Nitrous oxide gas, now, I believe, employed extensively in den tal surgery, since. It was reintroduced a few years ago by Dr. Evans, of Paris; but originally suggested by Sir Humphrey Davy, in 1800, and practically and successfully employed by Dr. Horace Wells, in Hartford, in 1844. Sulphuric ether, first used by Dr. Morton, at Boston, in 1846. Chloroform, first employed in Edinburgh, in 1847. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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