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 Discovery of Anesthesia by Dr Horace Wells written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 I Awaken to Glory written by Horace Wells and published by Watson Publishing International. This book was released on 1994 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Horace Wells has come to be viewed over the years as an enigmatic figure. Owing to his death by suicide in early 1848, and his inability to participate in the debate that soon erupted over credit for the discovery of anesthesia, the literature on him is confused, fragmentary and incomplete. While he is considered by some to have been the most benevolent and ethically correct participant in the early anesthesia story, an idealist who believed that anesthesia should be "as free as the air we breathe," he has been characterized by others as "volatile," "erratic," "errant," and "wayward."" "In 1991, three years before the celebration of the sesquicentennial of Wells's discovery of inhalation anesthesia, the contributors to this volume decided that it was high time to dig deeper into the literature on Wells and on the early anesthesia controversy and attempt to present an accurate account of Wells and his role in ushering in the era of modern anesthesia. Out of their research has emerged I Awaken To Glory, a compilation of twelve essays which not only present a clearer picture of Wells's efforts in bringing about painless surgery, but also delve into many aspects of his life and character that have been largely ignored." "The initial essay in I Awaken To Glory reviews the period between 1800, when Humphry Davy suggested that nitrous oxide gas might prove useful in alleviating pain during surgical operations, and 1844, when Horace Wells was first to put Davy's observation to the test. It explores why it took forty-four years for this event to happen, and then reviews and explicates the momentous circumstances that afterwards led to the introduction of anesthesia into surgery. Two succeeding essays describe and analyze Horace Wells's dental practice for the very first time, also presenting in transcribed form his "Day Book A," perhaps the most complete record extant of dental office transactions in the United States at mid-century. Three essays discuss some of the people who played an integral part in Wells's life: his wife Elizabeth; John M. Riggs, who performed on Wells the first operation under nitrous oxide anesthesia; and Christopher Starr Brewster, the American dentist in Paris who espoused Wells's cause in France. Other essays are devoted to Wells's twentieth-century biographer, W. Harry Archer, who, with his wife, preserved the manuscripts which remain the chief sources for documenting Horace Wells's life; the reception of Wells's discovery in Great Britain; the pictorial iconography of Wells; and his depictions in sculpture and three dimensional art. A number of portraits of Wells and his wife within have not been reproduced before, and several important documents also appear in print for the very first time." "With the publication of I Awaken To Glory we now have a more perfect reconstruction of Wells the discoverer, Wells the scientist, Wells the inventor, Wells the dentist, Wells the humanist, and - last, but not least - Wells the man. The materials in this volume combine with W. Harry Archer's "Life and Letters of Horace Wells" to comprise the definitive documentation of Wells and his extraordinary contribution to medicine."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Download or read book Life and Letters of Horace Wells Discoverer of Anesthesia written by William Harry Archer and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ether Day written by Julie M. Fenster and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-06-21 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating and entertaining look at the men behind the first surgical use of anesthesia—and the price they paid for their breakthrough. On Friday, October 16, 1846, only one operation was scheduled at Massachusetts General Hospital.... That day in Boston, the operation was the routine removal of a growth from a man's neck. But one thing would not be routine: instead of using pulleys, hooks, and belts to subdue a patient writhing in pain, this crucial operation would be the first performed under a general anesthetic. No one knew whether the secret concoction would work. Some even feared it might kill the patient. This engrossing book chronicles what happened that day and during its dramatic aftermath. In a vivid history that is stranger than fiction, Ether Day tells the story of the three men who converged to invent the first anesthesia—and the war of ego and greed that soon sent all three men spiraling wildly out of control.
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 Chronological History of Horace Wells written by William Harry Archer and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 28 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 State of Connecticut by His Excellency Raymond E Baldwin Governor a Proclamation written by Connecticut. Governor (1943-1946 : Baldwin) and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Horace Wells Centenary Celebration Hartford Connecticut December 11 1944 written by and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 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 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.
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 Oxford Textbook of Anaesthesia for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery written by Ian Shaw and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010-06-24 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the Oxford Textbooks in Anaesthesia series, this book provides a comprehensive and detailed overview of all aspects of anaesthesia for oral and maxillofacial surgery. This area represents one of the most common indications for anaesthesia worldwide and an understanding of this subject is key to the safe practice of anaesthesia.
Download or read book An Essay on Teeth Comprising a Brief Description of their Formation Diseases and Proper Treatment written by Horace Wells and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-08-30 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.
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:
Download or read book Handbook of Local Anesthesia 6 e written by Stanley F. Malamed and published by Elsevier India. This book was released on 2012-11-16 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical, "how-to" guide to safe anesthesia practices in dentistry, Handbook of Local Anesthesia, 6th Edition covers all the latest advances in science, instrumentation, and pain control techniques. From basic concepts to specific injection techniques, from dosage charts to the proper care and handling of equipment, this book provides in-depth, full-color coverage of key anesthesia topics, including specific hazards and errors in technique that may result in complications. Written by Dr. Stanley Malamed, dentistry's leading expert on this subject, Handbook of Local Anesthesia is a valuable reference that will help you prevent, recognize, and manage complications of local anesthesia administration. Videos on an available companion DVD (sold separately) are narrated by Dr. Stanley Malamed, covering topics such as local anesthetic agents, anesthetic injection techniques, potential complications, and risk management. Full-color photographs and line drawings are included throughout the book. In-depth discussions cover the anesthetic agents used in dentistry, along with their clinical actions. Routes of administration are described for all anesthetics. The proper care and handling of equipment is addressed, along with the problems that may be encountered. Requirements for pain control and local anesthesia within various dental specialties are included. Comprehensive information on Articaine is included, a local anesthetic that is gaining widespread use in the United States. Numerous boxes and tables provide a quick reference and comparison of techniques, drugs, and dosages. Dosage charts, injection techniques, information on duration of action, and contraindications for local anesthetics are included at the end of the book for quick reference.
