...this gas, he used the following language : — " As nitrous oxide (another name for the same gas), in its extensive operation, appears capable of destroying...used with advantage during surgical operations, in which no great effusion of blood takes place." Here, then, is the suggestion, but only the suggestion,...

...final summary (p. 556): "As nitrous oxide in its extensive operation appears capable of dis~ lodging physical pain, it may probably be used with advantage during surgical operations in which no great effusion of blood takes place." Was it not the fault rather of the surgeons of Davy's...

...Davy inlSOO: — '"As nitrous oxide in its extensive operation seems capable of destroying physi" cal pain, it may probably be used with advantage during surgical operations in " which no great effusion of blood takes place.' " Certainly these words admit of no ambiguity; they...

...century we reach the second or modern stage of anaesthetics in the suggestion of Sir Humphry Davy, that, " As nitrous oxide in its extensive operation...used with advantage during surgical operations in which no great effusion of blood takes place."—(' Chemical and Philosophical Experiments,' p. 464.)...

...century we reach the second or modern stage of anaesthetics in the suggestion of Sir Humphry Davy, that, " As nitrous oxide in its extensive operation...used with advantage during surgical operations in which no great effusion of blood takes place." — (' Chemical and Philosophical Experiments,' p. 464.)...

...originated the idea of using nitrous oxide to prevent pain during short surgical operations. He says : " As nitrous oxide in its extensive operation appears...used with advantage during surgical operations in which no great effusion of blood takes place." In another place : " The power of the immediate operation...

...tried its effect in removing intense physical pain, while he was cutting a wisdom-tooth." — "He says: 'As nitrous oxide, in its extensive operation, appears...used with advantage during surgical operations in which no great effusion of blood lakes place.' " — " In the article ' Ether,' in the Diet, des Sc....

...its effect in removing intense pliysical pain, while he was cutting a wisdom-tooth." — "He says: 'As nitrous oxide, in its extensive operation, appears...destroying physical pain, it may probably be used ivith advantage during surgical operations in which no great effusion of blood talces place.' " —...

...in measured quantities And in writing afterwards on nitrous oxide, he says, "as nitrous oxide seems capable of destroying physical pain, it may probably...used with advantage during surgical operations, in which no great effusion of blood takes place." Precisely because Davy did no more than this ; he did...

...intense physical pain, while he was cutting a wisdom-tooth." — "He says: 'An nitrous oxide, in ils extensive operation, appears capable of destroying physical pain, it may probably be used ivillt advantage during surgical operations in winch no great effusion of blood takes place.' " —...