Nitrous Oxide Anesthetic (1800) ~ RoYaL HaCk NeTwOrK

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Blog No	10
Contain Type	*The Industrial Age*
Invention	*Nitrous Oxide Anesthetic*
Year	*1800*

Davy’s “laughing gas” proves an effective form of pain relief.

Humphry Davy (1778 – 1829) first noted the anesthetic effects of nitrous oxide – a colorless, almost odorless gas – while experimenting at the pneumatic institute in Bristol, England. Davy (best known for inventing the miner’s (amp) realized that nitrous oxide both made him want to laugh (coining the term “laughing gas”) & relived his toothache. In 1800 he published a book stating that gas might “be used with advantage during surgical operations”. After davy’s observations, nitrous oxide become popular at laughing parties & fairground shows, but it was not used in surgery for another forty years

At One Fair in the united states, Horace wells, a connectict dentist observed a man who gashed his leg while under the influency of nitrous oxide. He seemed to be pain – free, & wells immediately had one of his own teeth removed while breathing in the gas. In January 1845 wells demonstrated the use of nitrous oxide in a dental extraction at the Harvard medical in a dental extraction at the Harvard medical school in Massachusetts Unfortunately, insufficient gas applied & the patient cried out in pain. The public humiliation resulted in wells’s loss of reputation as a dentist & tragically to his suicide three years later. The next year dentist William Morton successfully used the gas while a surgeon removed a tumor from a man’s neck & use of nitrous oxide in surgery then quickly caught on in London & Paris.

Today, nitrous oxide continues to be used during childbirth & in dentistry and in dentistry to allay anxiety and offer some degree of analgesia As an anesthetic it has survival chloroform, which proved too toxic, and ether, which posed to high a risk as an explosive.