Download or read book The Strange and True Tale of Horace Wells Surgeon Dentist written by Michael Downs and published by Acre Books. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 change the world, reshaping medicine and humanity's relationship with pain. But that discovery would also thrust Wells into scandals that threatened his reputation, his family, and his sanity--hardships and triumphs that resonate in today's struggles with what hurts us and what we take to stop the hurt. In this novel, Michael Downs mines the gaps in the historical record and imagines the motivations and mysteries behind Wells's morbid fascination with pain, as well as the price he and his wife, Elizabeth, paid--first through his obsession, then his addiction. The book is a love story, but also a story of what love can't redeem; of narcotic dreams and waking insanity; of humbug and miracle; of pain's destruction and what pains can never be eased. Following Wells throughout New England and across the ocean to Paris, the novel immerses the reader in the nineteenth century, conveying through rich physical description and telling dialogue the tragic life of a dentist who gave everything to rid the world of suffering.

Download or read book Discovery by the Late Dr Horace Wells of the Applicability of Nitrous Oxyd Gas Sulphuric Ether and Other Vapors in Surgical Operations Nearly Two Years Before the Patented Discovery of Drs Charles T Jackson and W T G Morton written by J. Wales and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Horace Wells Day written by Horace Wells and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daily record of filling, extracting, inserting and cleansing teeth, and selling tooth powder, kept by a dentist of Hartford, Connecticut. He is credited with being the first dentist to use nitrous oxide to anesthetize a patient before dental work.

Download or read book A History of the discovery of the application of Nitrous Oxide Gas Ether and other vapors to surgical operations written by Horace WELLS and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Discoverer of Anesthesia written by Henry Wood Erving and published by . This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tercentenary Commission Of The State Of Connecticut Committee On Historical Publications. Reprinted From The Yale Journal Of Biology And Medicine, V5, May, 1933.

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Download or read book The Life and Letters of Horace Wells Discoverer of Anesthesia written by W. Harry Archer and published by . This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Download or read book The Life and Letters of Horace Wells written by W. Harry Archer and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1944 edition.

Download or read book Horace Wells rediscovered written by Max E. Soifer and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A part of the Duke Medical Center Library History of Medicine Ephemera Collection.

Download or read book Horace Wells written by Charles J. Wells and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Articles Relating to Horace Wells and the Discovery of Anaesthesia Taken from Newspapers and Journal written by Horace Wells and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Discovery of Anaesthesia by Dr Horace Wells written by Horace Wells and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Horace Wells Dentist Father of Surgical Anesthesia written by Horace Wells and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Lost Education of Horace Tate written by Vanessa Siddle Walker and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2018 “An important contribution to our understanding of how ordinary people found the strength to fight for equality for schoolchildren and their teachers.” —Wall Street Journal In the epic tradition of Eyes on the Prize and with the cultural significance of John Lewis's March trilogy, an ambitious and harrowing account of the devoted black educators who battled southern school segregation and inequality For two years an aging Dr. Horace Tate—a former teacher, principal, and state senator—told Emory University professor Vanessa Siddle Walker about his clandestine travels on unpaved roads under the cover of night, meeting with other educators and with Dr. King, Georgia politicians, and even U.S. presidents. Sometimes he and Walker spoke by phone, sometimes in his office, sometimes in his home; always Tate shared fascinating stories of the times leading up to and following Brown v. Board of Education. Dramatically, on his deathbed, he asked Walker to return to his office in Atlanta, in a building that was once the headquarters of another kind of southern strategy, one driven by integrity and equality. Just days after Dr. Tate's passing in 2002, Walker honored his wish. Up a dusty, rickety staircase, locked in a concealed attic, she found the collection: a massive archive documenting the underground actors and covert strategies behind the most significant era of the fight for educational justice. Thus began Walker's sixteen-year project to uncover the network of educators behind countless battles—in courtrooms, schools, and communities—for the education of black children. Until now, the courageous story of how black Americans in the South won so much and subsequently fell so far has been incomplete. The Lost Education of Horace Tate is a monumental work that offers fresh insight into the southern struggle for human rights, revealing little-known accounts of leaders such as W.E.B. Du Bois and James Weldon Johnson, as well as hidden provocateurs like Horace Tate.