Colton, Gardner Quincy

First recorded use of nitrous oxide in United States dental practice by Gardner Quincy Colton, a former... 

Meanwhile in America, laughing gas was appearing in traveling medicine shows and carnivals. Gardner Quincy Colton, a former medical student, presided over one of these nitrous oxide demonstrations in Hartford, Connecticut, in December of 1844. One of the audience volunteers who had just inhaled the gas injured his leg without feeling any pain. In the audience was dentist Horace Wells, who took note of this and immediately seized on the idea that nitrous oxide might be a powerful anesthetic in the operating room. 

In 1844, a young American medical student named Gardner Quincy Colton decided to lecture on nitrous oxide and exhibit the effects of the gas after a fellow medical student suggested the idea to him. Colton s first demonstration thrilled him, leaving... 

In Gardner Quincy Colton s advertisement for his nitrous-oxide demonstration, he described ... 

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