RESUMO
Phineas T. Barnum (1810-1891) and Gardner Q. Colton (1814-1898) both entered the laughing gas show business in Manhattan in 1844. With Horace Wells (1815-1848), Colton introduced inhaled nitrous oxide for dental anesthesia in December 1844. The Barnumesque nature of laughing gas exhibitions may have contributed to the initially negative reception of nitrous anesthesia as humbug. Colton continued laughing gas shows after 1844, and he performed in a Barnum forum in Boston in 1862. In 1863, Barnum encouraged Colton to establish a flourishing painless dentistry practice in Manhattan. Barnum designated himself to be the Prince of Humbug. He embraced humbug for entertainment purposes but decried medical humbug. Notwithstanding, Barnum explicitly evinced awareness of the power of the placebo response. Accordingly, the proneness of individuals to deem impersonal all-purpose assessments to be personally applicable is dubbed the Barnum effect. Barnum was indirectly connected to Painless Parker (1872-1952), a dentist who exploited sensational advertising and humbug and ran a circus.
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Anestesia Dentária/história , Anestésicos Inalatórios/história , Óxido Nitroso/história , Charlatanismo/história , História do Século XIX , História do Século XX , Humanos , Atividades de Lazer , Estados UnidosRESUMO
Extravagant claims were made for proprietary dental anesthetics in Boston, MA, in the late 1800s. For instance, in 1883, Urial K. Mayo introduced an inhaled Vegetable Anaesthetic comprised of nitrous oxide that had been uselessly pretreated with botanical material. This misguided concept may have been inspired by homeopathy, but it was also in line with the earlier false belief of Elton R. Smilie, Charles T. Jackson, and William T.G. Morton that sulfuric ether could volatilize opium at room temperature. In 1895, the Dental Methyl Company advertised an agent they called Methyl, a supposedly perfect topical anesthetic for painless dental extraction. The active ingredient was probably chloroform. Anesthetic humbug did not cease in Boston on Ether Day of October 16, 1846.
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Anestesia Dentária/história , Anestesia por Inalação/história , Clorofórmio/história , Odontólogos/história , Éter/história , Anestesia Dentária/métodos , Anestesia por Inalação/métodos , Anestesiologia/história , Boston , Clorofórmio/administração & dosagem , Éter/administração & dosagem , História do Século XIX , HumanosRESUMO
The Jackson-Morton 1846 patent for surgical insensibility by means of sulphuric ether states that opiates can be added to the ether and co-administered by inhalation. The erroneous concept that ether could carry opiates in its vapor phase at room temperature was proposed in Boston in 1846 by Elton Romeo Smilie (1819-1889), who believed that the opiates were more important than the ether vehicle.
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Anestesia/história , Anestesiologia/história , Anestésicos Inalatórios/história , Patentes como Assunto/história , Anestesia/métodos , Anestesiologia/métodos , Anestésicos Inalatórios/farmacologia , Boston , Éter/história , História do Século XIX , Ópio/históriaRESUMO
John Collins Warren, the surgeon of Ether Day in 1846 at Massachusetts General Hospital, entered sulphuric ether into the nationally recognized Massachusetts pharmacopeia of 1808.
