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Horace Wells under nitrous oxide (1844)

picture of Horace Wells undergoing tooth extraction under nitrous oxide

Horace Wells undergoes tooth extraction under nitrous oxide anaesthesia. His partner John Riggs extracts the offending molar after Gardner Quincy Colton administers the nitrous oxide.

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