The Strange and True Tale of Horace Wells, Surgeon Dentist by Michael Downs

The Strange and True Tale of Horace Wells, Surgeon Dentist

Michael Downs

320 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction historical dark reflective medium-paced
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In 1844, Horace Wells, a Connecticut dentist, encountered nitrous oxide, or laughing gas--then an entertainment for performers in carnival-like theatrical acts--and began administering the gas as the first true anesthetic. His discovery would chan...

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