Horace Wells (January 21, 1815 – January 24, 1848) was an American dentist who pioneered the use of anesthesia in medicine, specifically the use of nitrous ...

William Thomas Green Morton (August 9, 1819 – July 15, 1868) was an American dentist and physician who first publicly demonstrated the use of inhaled ether ...

Horace Wells, American dentist who was a pioneer in the use of surgical anesthesia. Wells was ridiculed for the presumed failure of a public experiment of ...

Nitrous oxide is the most common inhalation anesthetic used in dentistry. Dr. Horace Wells was the first dentist to use nitrous oxide and is known as the ...

Morton did not “discover” anaesthesia, nor was he the first person who attempted to relieve surgical pain by administering ether or any other drug by inhalation ...

Officially, on November 26, 1884. Charles Nash, a dentist, was the first to anesthetize the infraorbital nerve of Richard J.

Nitrous oxide was brought front and center by Horace Wells, a dentist from Hartford, Connecticut, when he used it during his own tooth extraction in 1844. He ...

A dentist, Horace Wells discovered anaesthesia with N2O in 1844. Over a century after Davy, its potential usefulness in psychiatry was first recognised. The ...

28 окт. 2021 г. · Joseph Priestly first discovered nitrous oxide in 1772, though it wouldn't be used in dental treatments for more than 20 years.