Tag: horace wells

• A Dentist and a Misfit

  Meet Horace Wells, a fine young Aquarian dentist (we share a birthday). The studious and altruistic Wells volunteered (at a circus) to test the effects of nitrous oxide. He felt positively nothing and was the first patient in America to be operated under ether. Shortly thereafter he began using the stuff on his happy patients,…

  Adrienne Morris

  December 16, 2016

  Intoxication, United States History

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