...for a few minutes swallowed up in pleasure."* "As nitrous oxide, in its extensive operation, appears capable of destroying physical pain, it may probably...operations, in which no great effusion of blood takes place."t Lancet, April 24, ]847, p: 447. [Although, therefore, this extract refers to nitrous oxide...

...Dr. John Davy, is the following passage : — " As nitrous oxide, in its extensive operation, appears capable of destroying physical pain, it may probably...in which no great effusion of blood takes place." * Here is the germ of the whole matter. It is not too much to suppose that Mr. Wells, who all along...

...nrtrous oxide, in ite extensive operation, appears capable of desttoying physical pain, it may prohably be used with advantage during surgical operations in which no great effusion of blood takes place." Dr. CT Jackson, in the pampblet published under his sanction by Dr. M. Gay, in 1847, says, that " he...

...was cutting a wisdom-tooth." — " He says : ' As nitrous oxide, in its extensive operation, appears capable of destroying physical pain, it may probably...operations in which no great effusion of blood takes place? " — " In the article ' Ether,' in the Diet, des Sc. Med., vol. xiii., published in 1815, we find...

...the removal of pain in surgical operations. " As nitrous oxide, in its extensive operation, appears capable of destroying physical pain, it may probably be used with advantage in surgical operations, in which no great effusion of blood takes place."f The idea of Davy was not...

...the removal of pain in surgical operations. "As nitrous oxide, in its extensive operation, appears capable of destroying physical pain, it may probably be used with advantage in surgical operations, in which no great effusion of blood takes place."* The idea of Davy was not...

...the experiment than before." And on page 32 : " As nitrous oxyd, in its extensive operations, appears capable of destroying physical pain, it may probably...in which no great effusion of blood takes place." So that Dr. Wells could claim no originality in the discovery or conception of anaesthesia, or of the...

...breathing it, and he published the following opinion in the first year of the present century :— " As nitrous oxide in its extensive operation seems...operations in which no great effusion of blood takes place "(a). This sentence was read by hundreds, and listened to at public lectures by thousands, for the...

...Sir Humphrey Davy-s Researches concerning Nitrous Oxide, published in the first year of this century: "As nitrous oxide, in its extensive operation seems...in which no great effusion of blood takes place." About forty years after the publication of this sentence, nitrous oxide was used with doubtful success...

...published in the 'first year of this century : " As nitrous oxide in its extensive operation fleems capable of destroying physical pain, it may probably...in which no great effusion of blood takes place." About forty years after the publication of this «entence nitrous oxide was used with doubtful success...