A.J. Wright, MLS
One of the original anesthetic agents of modern Western medicine, nitrous oxide, is still in clinical use today. Two others developed for anesthesia in the 1840s were abandoned decades ago, but ether and chloroform had long lives in medicine, unlike some other substances I’d like to cover in this article. Amylene, hedonal, amylocaine—the names seem almost exotic now. Some lasted decades; others came and went quickly. The modern search