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Downtown 1958

Downtown 1958

Thursday, May 27, 2021

Painless!

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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