Manual of the discovery, manufacture, and administration of nitrous oxide, or laughing gas in its relations to dental or minor surgical operations, and particularly for the painless extraction of teeth / by F.R. Thomas.

  • Thomas, Frederick R.
Date:
1870
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Credit: Manual of the discovery, manufacture, and administration of nitrous oxide, or laughing gas in its relations to dental or minor surgical operations, and particularly for the painless extraction of teeth / by F.R. Thomas. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    ( ^^G 4 1891 ^] DISCOV^?«ANTl¥Ta^CTION Ab NITROUS OXIDE. Nitrous Oxide Gas was discovered by Priestley in 1776. He procured it by ex- posing binoxide of nitrogen to the action of iron, which deprived it of a portion of its oxygen, and reduced it to a state of protoxide of nitrogen. Yery little was known, however, of its action and effects until Sir Humphry Davy, by a series of careful experiments, demonstrated its character. The inhala- tions made by himself and many others, led him to pen the prophetic paragraph, that, as nitrous oxide in its extensive