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Show ETHER FIRST USED IN BOSTON j i In 18-14 Horace Wells, a Dentist, Mads a Successful Expjriment on i Himself. j In IR-ll, Horace Wells, dentist, Hart- ford. Conn., attended a lecture by Col- ! ton on nitrous oxld gas. In illuslrat- ! Ing the lecture gas was administered to one of tho audience, who became unconscious. This led Wells to be- Hove that It might be employed to ren- j der painless the extracllon of teeth. ( He tried it on himself and found that I It was so. During the same year William Norton, Nor-ton, a Boston dentist, heard that sul- furic ether could be Inhaled in small quantities to produce unconsciousness. I Accordingly, lie experimented. He wns j Insensible for eight minute.-., i'm re- " -. I covering he concluded that other might " . ' he employed successfully In surgical work. On October 1(1, 18-lfi, Morton ad-' ministered ether to a paiient In the Massachusetts general hospital 111 Bosion. '. It was In November, 1S4T, that Simp- son, famous Scottish scientist of IOdin- ! hurgh, resolved to try personally the inhalation of chloroform. Sitting witti 1 his friends, Duncan and Keith, around '. a dinner table, he proposed that they i Inhale chloroform. Kach consented to ( the lest. First, their minds were liven- j ed ; then they fell Into a deep stupor. Simpson, recovering first, found Dun- j can snoring on the floor, and Keith, . j half-sensible, struggling to regain the chair from which he had fallen. j |