DETAILS, FICTION AND NITROUS OXIDE

The 1st time nitrous oxide was applied as an anaesthetic drug from the cure of a patient was when dentist Horace Wells, with support by Gardner Quincy Colton and John Mankey Riggs, demonstrated insensitivity to ache from a dental extraction on 11 December 1844.[25] In the following weeks, Wells handled the initial 12 to 15 patients with nitrous oxi