THE NITROUS OXIDE CANISTERS DIARIES

The very first time nitrous oxide was employed as an anaesthetic drug within the procedure of the client was when dentist Horace Wells, with support by Gardner Quincy Colton and John Mankey Riggs, demonstrated insensitivity to pain from the dental extraction on 11 December 1844.[25] In the subsequent months, Wells treated the first twelve to 15 peo