Pain

Dealing with Pain:

Laughing gas:

• used in 1844
• Humphrey Davy
• nitrous oxide
• patients still conscious

Ether:

• used from 1846
• William Morston
• put patients to sleep
• irritated eyes and lungs
• caused coughing and sickness
• large heavy container
• flammable

Chloroform:

• used from 1847
• used in childbirth and surgery
• it was…