Horace Wells (* 21 January 1815 in hard Ford, Vermont; "† 24 January 1848 in New York town center, Suizid), was an US-American dentist, who admits by the first use from laughing gas to the anaesthesia became.

Life and work

After a conclusion in chemistry Wells opened a practice in hard Fords together with William T.G. Morton.

Wells discovered the effect of the laughing gas at a fair demonstration and used it on it in its practice. A demonstration of the effect at the general hospital in Boston 1845 failed however due to a wrong dosage. Thereupon Wells' call was ruined in the professional world and it had its living costs as flying dealers to earn itself.

On behalf its partner it bereiste starting from 1847 Europe, in order for its discovery and different one from Morton discovered anaesthetics to recruit, became however even chloroform addicted and committed in detention Suizid in New Yorker prisons "“Tombs the Prison"” by a cut into the leg artery, after it had made itself pain insensitive with chloroform before.

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