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    gas). Wells was the first of three children of Horace and Betsy Heath Wells, born on January 21, 1815, in Hartford, Vermont. His parents were well-educated...
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    Dr. Horace Wells, also known as the Horace Wells Monument, is a monumental statue in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. The statue, located in the city's...
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    Patent". Medical Times. 4 (January to July): 83–84. Wells, Horace, 1815-1848., “Letter of Horace Wells to the editor of the Hartford Daily Courant,” OnView...
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    reference to the unsuccessful demonstration of nitrous oxide anesthesia by Horace Wells in the same theater the previous year, which was ended by cries of "Humbug...
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    BC – 27 November 8 BC), commonly known in the English-speaking world as Horace (/ˈhɒrɪs/), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus...
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    Vapors to Surgical Operations. Hartford: J. Gaylord Wells. Retrieved 13 September 2010. Horace Wells. Morton, WTG (1847). Remarks on the Proper Mode of...
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    operation. However, Long did not announce his discovery until 1849. Horace Wells conducted the first public demonstration of the inhalational anesthetic...
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    Thomas Jefferson) is the site of a monument to the American dentist, Horace Wells (1815–1848), who was a pioneer in the use of anesthesia. The monument...
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    Switzerland-born landscape architect Gideon Welles (1802–1878), Secretary of the Navy under Abraham Lincoln Horace Wells, discoverer of anesthesia Amos Whitney...
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    reference to the unsuccessful demonstration of nitrous oxide anesthesia by Horace Wells in the previous year, which was ended by cries of "Humbug!" after the...
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    Eyre, Willis G. Hale, Cope and Stewardson, William Lightfoot Price, Horace Wells Sellers, and Milton B. Medary. Maene's choir stalls and reredos for the...
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    Anæsthesia: Dr. Horace Wells of Hartford". The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine. 5 (5): 421–430. PMC 2606479. PMID 21433572. Wells H (1847). A history...
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    two additional physicians staking an ether claim – Charles Jackson and Horace Wells. It was at this time that his findings were finally published. He addressed...
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    Pure N2O was first used as a medical analgesic in December 1844, when Horace Wells made the first 12–15 dental operations with the gas in Hartford. Its...
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    feel the pain because of the effects of the gas. Connecticut dentist Horace Wells was in attendance, realized the possibilities of using nitrous oxide...
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    Horace Mann (May 4, 1796 – August 2, 1859) was an American educational reformer, slavery abolitionist and Whig politician known for his commitment to promoting...
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  • Horace is a masculine given name, derived from the Roman poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65 BC–8 BC). Notable people with the name include: Horace A. Tenney...
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    nitrous oxide, producing a state of excitation. Long, as well as fellow dentists Horace Wells, William Edward Clarke and William T. G. Morton observed...
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    whether the experiment is ethical or dangerous.: 314 : 206  Dentist Horace Wells made multiple experiments with nitrous oxide, diethyl ether, and chloroform...
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  • Harvard Medical School's Massachusetts General Hospital, dentist, Dr. Horace Wells was the first to use anesthesia, but with limited success. On 16 October...
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    Association), was founded in his memory. Pitkin was born in Philadelphia to Horace Wells Pitkin and Lucy Tracy Yale, daughter of Rev. Cyrus Yale. His father was...
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    England, he first took a house in Tunbridge Wells, and then moved to Brighton in 1826. He died at Tunbridge Wells on 12 July 1849. The Rejected Addresses...
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    Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silver (September 2, 1928 – June 18, 2014) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger, particularly in the hard bop...
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    Old English well(a) ‘spring’, ‘stream’, or a topopgraphical name from this word (in its plural form), for example Wells in Somerset or Wells-next-the-Sea...
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    employed for any type of surgical anesthesia. In modern medicine, Dr. Horace Wells used nitrous oxide for his own dental extraction in 1844. However his...
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    been home to Horace, a territorial Great Blue Heron, lovingly named by the local 06103 community to commemorate both Horace Wells, and Horace Bushnell. Today...
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    10,686 in the entire town of Hartford. Hartford is the birthplace of Horace Wells, the first dentist to use nitrous oxide or "laughing gas" as anesthesia...
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    Orford (/ˈwɔːlpoʊl/; 24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797), better known as Horace Walpole, was an English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian...
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    Wassell (1944) - Ensign (uncredited) The Great Moment (1944) - Dr. Horace Wells Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944) - Lieut. Miller Betrayal from the East...
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  • Horace Horsecollar is a cartoon character created in 1929 at Walt Disney Animation Studios. Horace is a tall anthropomorphic black horse and is one of...
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