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	Horace Wells - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Horace Wells (January 21, 1815 – January 24, 1848) was an American dentist who pioneered the use of anesthesia in dentistry, specifically nitrous oxide or laughing gas.
		Wells first bore witness to the effects of laughing gas in 1844 when he volunteered to have it demonstrated on him by Gardner Quincy Colton, a member of a travelling circus.
		Wells then committed suicide, slitting an artery in his leg with a razor after inhaling an analgesic dose of chloroform to blot out the pain.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Horace_Wells (369 words)

	Royal Tunbridge Wells - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tunbridge Wells is traditionally associated with the prim middle classes, especially in the locution "Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells".
		Tunbridge Wells is often assumed to be a bastion of the middle classes and comfortably bourgeois.
		Horace Smith (1779-1849), poet and novelist (died in Tunbridge Wells).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tunbridge_Wells (1576 words)

	Horace Wells: Raw Deal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Horace Wells was a dentist in Hartford, Connecticut.
		Wells was publicly ridiculed and attacked by those who wanted to claim the discovery for themselves and turn anesthesia into a money-making business.
		Wells, unable to fight the abuse and bereft of supporters, moved to New York City and began sniffing chloroform.
	www.blastbooks.com /RAWDEAL/Wells/fr2wells.htm (211 words)

	H. G. Wells the Man and the Author - Home
		Wells lived in Westbourne Park in a small, dirty, noisy, and overcrowded house which brought him uncomfortably close to "corsets." While Wells was on school vacation he read Plato's Republic which lead him to make his first conclusions about life and became the keystone to his spiritual universe.
		Wells was asked by William Ernest Henley to write for his paper so Wells wrote him "The Time Machine." Wells was payed 100 pounds for the publication rights to "The Time Machine" which brought him great success and thrust him out of poverty.
		The boycotting was a blessing in disguise for Wells and his career because to the younger generation he was regarded as a symbol of revolt against all that was strict, dull, pompous, and hateful.
	www.geocities.com /originalroman (2459 words)

	BookRags: Horace Wells Biography
		The American dentist Horace Wells (1815-1848) was the first practitioner to publicly advocate the use of nitrous oxide as an anesthetic and one of the first to use an anesthetic.
		Horace Wells was born in Hartford, Vt., on Jan. 21, 1815.
		Wells was probably a traveling dentist before settling in Hartford, Conn., in 1836, where he developed a large practice.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/horace-wells (421 words)

	Horace Wells - Bushnell Park, Hartford, CT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Wells was born in Hartford, VT at the turn of the nineteenth century.
		Wells claimed that a patient could be gassed with nitrous oxide, feel no pain during the procedure, and awake feeling little, if any, discomfort.
		One particular group of Connecticut dentists, the Horace Wells Club, formed in 1894 on the fiftieth anniversary of Wells' great discovery, meets every year on the anniversary of Wells' discovery, to remember this great benefactor and to foster the study of anesthesiology.
	www.bushnellpark.org /wells.html (490 words)

	PFA- Hall of Fame
		Dr. Wells then began to experiment with the administration of nitrous oxide to his patients to prevent pain while teeth were being extracted.
		Wells published a claim as the discoverer of general anesthesia, nitrous oxide, in the Daily Hartford Courant.
		There are memorials, busts and statues to Horace Wells all over the world, and a Memorial Window in Center Church Hartford, Ct. The Connecticut State Dental Association recently celebrated the 150th Anniversary of the discovery of general anesthesia with a testimonial and memorial dinner in his honor.
	www.fauchard.org /awards/fame03.htm (590 words)

	Today in Technology History - Jan 21
		Wells was born on January 21, 1815 in Vermont.
		It's not clear how familiar Wells was with these loopy drug parties, but in late 1844 he witnessed a demonstration of the numbing effects of nitrous oxide at a lecture.
		Wells felt no pain during the procedure, and he immediately started using the gas on his patients with great success.
	www.tecsoc.org /pubs/history/2003/jan21.htm (345 words)

	Horace Wells
		Wells was hissed by the students, who pronounced him a charlatan and his gas a humbug.
		Wells remonstrated, stating the results of his own experiments and introducing the testimony of the medical profession in Hartford; but to no avail, for a patent was issued to Dr. Morton in November, 1846.
		Wells was arrested on a charge of throwing vitriol on the clothes of women in the street, and this so aggravated a mental disorder with which he had been attacked that he committed suicide He published a pamphlet entitled "A History of the Application of Nitrous-Oxide Gas, Ether, and other Vapors to Surgical Operations" (1847).
	www.famousamericans.net /horacewells (660 words)

	NewsScan Publishing Inc. - NewsScan Daily Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Wells brought a good deal of creativity to his dental practice, inventing new procedures and designing special instruments for their performance.
		Wells also experimented on himself with other anesthetic agents, such as ether and chloroform, to ascertain their comparative anesthetic properties.
		Wells died thinking he had been the first to discover and use inhalation anesthesia -- but unknown to him this honor rightfully belongs to Dr. Crawford Long, a Georgia physician, who failed to publish his work until years after Wells had independently made the same discovery.
	www.newsscan.com /cgi-bin/findit_view?table=honorary_subscriber&id=541 (468 words)

	AmericanHeritage.com / “GENTLEMEN, THIS IS NO HUMBUG”
		Wells took the bag in his lap and the tube in his mouth and inhaled till insensibility relaxed the muscles of his arms … his hands fell upon his breast and his head dropped on the head rest and I instantly [word illegible] the forceps into his mouth—onto the tooth and extracted it.
		Wells continued to make improvements in the construction of his nitrous oxide inhaling apparatus, in the nitrate of ammonia from which the gas was made, in the gas itself and in its mode of preparation.
		Wells insisted in his letter that others were involved in the acid throwing that had been going on all week; and that the act for which he was arrested had been his one and only misdeed under the influence of chloroform.
	www.americanheritage.com /articles/magazine/ah/1979/5/1979_5_80.shtml (7883 words)

	NMAH: Miniature Portrait of Horace Wells
		Dr. Horace Wells began practicing dentistry in Hartford, Connecticut, and later opened a practice in Boston with William T. Morton.
		Wells had his own tooth removed while under the effects of anesthesia to prove a surgical procedure could be performed without pain.
		This miniature portrait of Dr. Horace Wells is watercolor on cardboard, framed in a hinged case.
	americanhistory.si.edu /collections/object.cfm?key=35&objkey=113 (89 words)

	Wells, H(erbert) G(eorge) - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Wells, H(erbert) G(eorge)
		He was a pioneer of science fiction with such novels as The Time Machine (1895) and The War of the Worlds (1898) (describing a Martian invasion of Earth), which brought him nationwide recognition.
		The other two volumes were The Science of Life (1929), written with his son G P Wells and Julian Huxley, and The Work, Wealth and Happiness of Mankind (1932).
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Wells,+H(erbert)+G(eorge) (338 words)

	ASA September 1999 Newsletter
		Horace Wells, D.D.S.: Rebel With a Cause (1815-1848)
		A.J. Wright, M.L.S. Horace Wells, depressed and under the influence of chloroform that he had apparently been breathing chronically for some weeks, killed himself in New York City on January 23, 1848, two days past his 33rd birthday.
		Wells made the discovery in December 1844, submitted himself as the first patient and then replicated that success on 15 of his dental patients.
	www.asahq.org /Newsletters/1999/09_99/horace0999.html (669 words)

	Cedar Hill Cemetery
		Wells noted that one participant had cut his leg during his “adventure” but was unaware of it and felt no pain from his injury.
		Wells disclaimed their rights to the patents on the grounds that their product was nothing more than his original nitrous oxide compound.
		Members of the Horace Wells Club of Connecticut, the Hartford Medical and Dental Societies and the Connecticut Dental Association attended a presentation by conservator, Francis Miller and, led by Dr. William MacDonnell, decided to raise funds to restore the bronze sculpture on the monument's front.
	www.cedarhillcemetery.org /Wells.htm (738 words)

	wells
		James Wells, son of Thomas and Mary, born January 9, 1794, married Nancy Palmer and their children were: John W; Manson who married Althea King and was killed in the Civil War; Erwin (or Irving) who married Zion King; Henry who married Elizabeth Greer; Mahalia who married Turner King; and Sarah who married George Hampton.
		The Wells farm raised corn, wheat, potatoes, tobacco, as well as vegetables, pumpkins and fruit.
		Charlie wells, son of John W. Wells, was born Sept 15, 1861, married Joanna Reynolds, daughter of John Haskew and Sarah Ann (Ferguson) Reynolds on January 1, 1886.
	www.obcgs.com /wells.htm (1217 words)

	Wells Horace - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Wells, Horace (1815-1848), American dentist who discovered nitrous oxide anaesthesia and was the first to use the gas in dentistry.
		Of the few anaesthetic agents known to the ancients, opium and hemp were the most important.
		A patron of the arts, Augustus was a friend of the poets Ovid, Horace, and Virgil, as well as the historian Livy.
	au.encarta.msn.com /Wells_Horace.html (110 words)

	gertrudiae (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Gertrude Wells was the daughter of Horace L. Wells, a professor of analytical chemistry and metallurgy at Yale University in New Haven.
		Horace was an avid mushroom hunter, and repeatedly came upon a peculiar bolete around his home which he thought at first was "a variety of B.
		Curiously, although not mentioned in the description by Horace Wells or Peck, Gertrude's painting shows a faint rhubarb-purple tinge to the stipe, a diagnostic character of B.
	www.tc.umn.edu /~dent0015/gertrudiae.html (257 words)

	The Unusual History of Ether
		Finally, Dr. Wells was allowed a public demonstration in January 1845 at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
		Despite Dr. Wells failure, chemist and physician Dr. Charles T. Jackson saw interest in his work, and consulted with Wells on the properties of both ether and nitrous oxide.
		Well, Dr. Morton began to receive information about the use of ether from his friend and colleague Dr. Jackson.
	www.anesthesia-nursing.com /ether.html (653 words)

	National Board of Anesthesiology, Inc
		William Thomas Green Morton, also an American dentist and close associate of Wells, after experimentation with ether, performed the first successful public demonstration of the wonders of general anesthesia, in what is now call the "Ether Dome", and the leading medical center of it's time, The Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
		From the beginning with, Wells discovery; Morton's demonstration and training of physicians to administer anesthesia; other people and events too numerous to mention here, to the current Diplomates of the National Board of Anesthesiology (NBA), the practice of anesthesiology, has been the practice of dentistry.
		The discipline of anesthesiology is currently shared by dentists, osteopathic physicians and allopathic physicians, as well as nurses, in the United States.
	www.nbanesth.org /history.html (367 words)

	Wells Chamber of Commerce & California Trail Interpretive Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Located on the north east corner of Lake and Ninth Streets, the Coryell House, built in 1870, was the first residence constructed in Wells.
		Horace Coryell was a prime mover behind the effort to incorporate the growing community into a city.
		The City of Wells was incorporated in 1927 and Coryell became the first mayor.
	www.wellsnevada.com /historic/18.shtml (115 words)

	Gas, laughing definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms
		In 1840 a dentist named Horace Wells thought that, using the recently discovered "exhilarating or laughing gas," teeth might be pulled without pain.
		Wells gave a demonstration with a patient at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
		Wells became depressed, became addicted (to chloroform, another anesthetic agent) and in 1848 committed suicide.
	www.medterms.com /script/main/art.asp?articlekey=16888 (193 words)

	Committee on House Administration, Minority Office :: Committee Activity
		Horace Hayden, born in Windsor, sought to raise the academic bar for the next generation of dentists.
		Wells was declared the "discoverer of anesthesia" by the Connecticut Legislature in 1848, by the American Dental Association in 1863, and by the American Medical Association in 1870.
		In addition, the James McManus Fund of the Hartford Dental Society and the Horace Wells Club of Connecticut are founding benefactors of the Dr. Samuel D. Harris National Museum of Dentistry.
	www.house.gov /cha/minority/activity_statements_archive/floor_stmts-031007.htm (839 words)

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		William Thomas Green Morton (1819–68), shown on the tan and fl stamp from Transkei, was born in Charlton, Massachusetts, the son of a shopkeeper, and trained originally in dentistry.
		He assisted his friend and former partner Horace Wells (1815–48), who utilized nitrous oxide on December 11, 1844, for a dental extraction.
		Wells arranged an ill-fated public demonstration at Massachusetts General Hospital with the prominent surgeon Dr. John Collins Warren.
	www.childsdoc.org /spring2000/stamps.asp (857 words)

	Horace Walpole
		Horace Walpole, was the third son of Sir Robert Walpole, England's longest ruling Prime Minister.
		Inevitably, Horace attended Eton and Cambridge, and took a seat in the Parliament in 1741.
		Besides his books, Horace Walpole is the author of a huge amount of correspondence (7,000 letters).
	www.unitel.cc /Walpole.htm (190 words)

	Columbia University Medical Center
		The Horace Wells Club, named for Dr. Horace Wells, the discoverer of anesthesia, is committed to supporting dental education for Connecticut citizens.
		Horace Wells, who was from Hartford, CT, discovered anesthesia in December 1844 –; a discovery that is responsible for relieving pain during medical and dental surgery and opening doors to new depths of surgery.
		The Horace Wells Club, formed in 1894 on the fiftieth anniversary of Wells' great discovery, meets every year on the anniversary of his discovery, to remember this great benefactor and to foster the study of anesthesiology.
	www.cumc.columbia.edu /news/press_releases/dental.honors.html (892 words)

	Today in Technology History - Jan 24
		Wells began experimenting with nitrous oxide -- laughing gas -- during tooth extractions in 1844, but the next year he was humiliated during a demonstration of his technique when a patient cried out in pain despite the gas Wells had administered.
		Wells kept using nitrous oxide on his own patients, but after that embarrassing incident he gave up on trying to inform the medical profession.
		It was apparently a painless death, however, since the anesthesia pioneer clutched a rag with chloroform fumes to his face during the suicide.
	www.tecsoc.org /pubs/history/2003/jan24.htm (332 words)

	Wells, Horace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In 1845 Wells went to Boston where, with the help of Morton (then no longer his partner) and others, he arranged to give a demonstration at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
		After this, Wells gave up his dental practice and became a travelling sales representative, selling canaries and then showerbaths in Connecticut.
		Once Morton had given a successful demonstration of ether anaesthesia, Wells went to Paris 1847 to try to establish his priority in using anaesthesia.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/biographies/MainBiographies/W/Wells/1.html (212 words)

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