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    gas). Wells was the first of three children of Horace and Betsy Heath Wells, born on January 21, 1815, in Hartford, Vermont. His parents were well-educated...
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    Dr. Horace Wells, also known as the Horace Wells Monument, is a monumental statue in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. The statue, located in the city's...
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    college after graduating to study in Hartford, Connecticut with dentist Horace Wells, with whom Morton shared a brief partnership. In 1843, Morton married...
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    BC – 27 November 8 BC), commonly known in the English-speaking world as Horace (/ˈhɒrɪs/), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus...
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    Thomas Jefferson) is the site of a monument to the American dentist, Horace Wells (1815–1848), who was a pioneer in the use of anesthesia. The monument...
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    reference to the unsuccessful demonstration of nitrous oxide anesthesia by Horace Wells in the same theater the previous year, which was ended by cries of "Humbug...
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    Vapors to Surgical Operations. Hartford: J. Gaylord Wells. Retrieved 13 September 2010. Horace Wells. Morton, WTG (1847). Remarks on the Proper Mode of...
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    operation. However, Long did not announce his discovery until 1849. Horace Wells conducted the first public demonstration of the inhalational anesthetic...
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    Eyre, Willis G. Hale, Cope and Stewardson, William Lightfoot Price, Horace Wells Sellers, and Milton B. Medary. Maene's choir stalls and reredos for the...
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    Switzerland-born landscape architect Gideon Welles (1802–1878), Secretary of the Navy under Abraham Lincoln Horace Wells, discoverer of anesthesia Amos Whitney...
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