May 18, 1895, Saturday Evening Press
Odontunder! The wonder of the dental age! 1906 chemical analyses of this Odontunder later revealed that the anesthetic mixture contained cocaine, carbolic acid (phenol), and resorcin (a “chemical cousin” of phenol). It was also known as Dr. Stoughton’s Wonderful Pain Obtunder, also known as laughing gas. But this was an age when cocaine was in Coca Cola so should we have been surprised?!
Above slide courtesy of the American Society of Anesthesiologists’ Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology.
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