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Name: Horace Wells
Birth Date: January 21, 1815
Death Date: January 23, 1848
Place of Birth: Hartford, Vermont, United States
Place of Death: New York, New York, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: dentist

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The American dentist Horace Wells (1815-1848) was the first practitioner to publicly advocate the use of nitrous oxide as an anesthetic and one of the first to use an anesthetic. Horace Wells was born in Hartford, Vt., on Jan. 21, 1815. He attended...


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Horace Wells (January 21, 1815 – January 24, 1848) was an American dentist who pioneered the use of anaesthesia in dentistry, specifically nitrous oxide (or laughing gas). Born in Vermont, Wells was educated in Walpole, New Hampshire before studying...


 

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