Exploring the historical journey of inhalation anesthesia from Horace Wells to Morton, detailing Morton's breakthrough announcement of ether as an anesthetic followed by successful surgical demonstrations at Massachusetts General Hospital.
This 2012 episode from prior hosts Sarah and Deblina covers dentist Horace Wells. At an exhibition in 1844 he became certain that nitrous oxide could revolutionize medicine. He tried to demonstrate his findings, but things didn't go as planned.
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