Anesthesia

Anesthesia =**What Happened?**= After Joseph Priestley discovered nitrous oxide, Davy Humphrey was studying in the Pneumatic Institute in Bristol, England he experimented with the physiological properties of the gas, such as its effects upon respiration. He even administered the gas to visitors to the institute, and after watching the amusing effects on people who inhaled it, coined the term "laughing gas" Davy even noted the anesthetic effects of the gas: "As nitrous oxide in its extensive operation appears capable of destroying physical pain, it may probably be used with advantage during surgical operations in which no great effusion of blood takes place".

However, despite this observation, for the next 40 years or so the primary use of laughing gas was for recreational enjoyment and public shows. So called nitrous oxide buds took place in traveling medicine shows and carnivals, where the public would pay a small price to inhale a minute's worth of the gas. People would laugh and act silly until the effect of the drug came to its abrupt end, when they would stand about in confusion. Many famous people (of that time) and professors from Clifton and Bristol came to inhale his purified nitrous oxide for recreational purposes.

Davy Humphry as mentioned earlier was not the founder or discover of nitrous oxide. A lot of people have considered him to be the founder of the chemical which is not true. Around 1789 Joseph Priestley discovered the chemical. Davy Humphry discovered the purpose and abilities of the chemical. A lot of people get the two mixed up so I just wanted to clear this out before anyone has a misunderstanding.

=**Science is....**=

Taking what someone else discovered to a greater level. Finding out the purpose's of something and making it useful to other people then yourself. Science is something people use everyday whether they know it or not.

Humphry Davy. (2013, May 14). In //Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia//. Retrieved 17:01, May 16, 2013, from [|http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Humphry_Davy&oldid=555029098]