...tooth. Forty-four years had, however, to elapse after Davy's announcement that, ' as nitrous oxide seems capable of destroying physical pain, it may probably...be used with advantage during surgical operations,' before this pregnant suggestion was acted on. In 1818, an article, believed to have been written by...

...experimented upon by Davy in the laboratory of Dr. Beddoes at Bristol, and in the year 1800, he wrote, " As nitrous oxide in its extensive operation appears...used with advantage during surgical operations in which no great effusion of blood takes place." It was only in 1868, that it was brought into practical...

...Davy thus hinted at the possibility that a pain subduing gas might be inhaled: — "As nitrous oxu/e, in its extensive operation, appears capable of destroying...used with advantage during surgical operations in which no great effusion of blood takes place." Baron Larrey, Napoleon's surgeon, after the battle of...

...was uttered by that great philosopher and chemist: "As nitrous oxide in its extensive operation seems capable of destroying physical pain, it may probably...used with advantage during surgical operations in which no great effusion of blood takes place." This prediction was literally fulfilled when, in 1844,...

...first practical hint towards the use of our modern anaesthetics. " As nitrous oxide," he says, " seems capable of destroying physical pain, it may probably...be used with advantage during surgical operations." It was more than sixty years after this suggestion had been made, before the gas began to be used as...

...this gas, he used the following language : — " As nitrous oxide (another name for the same gas), in its extensive operation, appears capable of destroying physical pain, it may probably be usfd with advantage during surgical operations, in which no great effusion of blood takes place." Here,...

...ago, Sir Humphry Davy thus hinted at the possibility that a pain-subduing gas might be inhaled : — " As nitrous oxide, in its extensive operation, appears...used with advantage during surgical operations in which no great eifusion of blood takes place." Baron Larrey, Napoleon's surgeon, after the battle of...

..." Towards the conclusion of his book he adds : — "As nitrous oxyde, in its extensive operations, appears capable of destroying physical pain, it may...used with advantage during surgical operations in which no great effusion of blood takes place." agent, in a direction to which contemporaneous attention...

...property to surgery, for he did no more than suggest that, " as nitrous oxide in its extensive operations appears capable of destroying physical pain, it may...used with advantage during surgical operations in which no great effusion of blood takes place."* The savants of the whole time between 1800 and 1844...

...property to surgery, for he did no more than suggest that, " as nitrous oxide in its extensive operations appears capable of destroying physical pain, it may...used with advantage during surgical operations in which no great effusion of blood takes place."* The savants of the whole time between 1800 and 1844...