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Title: Tri-State medical journal and practitioner
Year: 1897 (1890s)
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Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: St. Louis : (s.n.)
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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I didnH feel it so much as the prick of a pin! That was the first tooth ever drawn without pain; a fact which no one,even Dr. Morton, ever disputed. Mr. Colton taught Wells how to manufacture the gas and administerit and went off on his exhibition business. Horace Wells continued to use the nitrous oxide gas as an anaesthetic,for extracting teeth, during the remainder of that year and the following(1845), until, on account of failing health, he went to Europe the latter partof the year. We have abundant evidence that the well-known similarityin the action of nitrous oxide and sulphuric ether was discussed betweenHorace Wells and his friends, among whom were Dr. E. E. Marcy, who, I 80 Historical Sketch. believe, is still living in New York City, who prepared some ether forWells and used some of it himself, in removing a cyst from a mans scalp.Wells also tried the ether, and pulled a tooth from a patient under itsinfluence. He, however, found the ether unpleasant in some of its effects
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Dr. Horace Wells. (who of us has not), and also on account of its odor, and the generalbelief among his medical advisers that it was dangerous to life, he droppedit. Not, however, before he had communicated the fact to Valentine Mott,of New York City, and suggested that it might be used in great surgicaloperations. This is attested in a certificate from Dr. Mott, published in Historical Sketch. 81 Truman Smiths work on Anaesthesia, and also in an article in the BostonMedical and Surgical Journal of June 15, 1845, which is, so far as I havebeen able to learn, the earliest publication made on the subject. After the use of nitrous oxide had become a familiar and well-known

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