GETTING MY LAUGHING GAS TO WORK

The first time nitrous oxide was utilised as an anaesthetic drug during the therapy of the affected person was when dentist Horace Wells, with help by Gardner Quincy Colton and John Mankey Riggs, shown insensitivity to discomfort from the dental extraction on eleven December 1844.[25] In the following months, Wells treated the 1st 12 to fifteen peo