The father of anesthesia numbed himself to death. 🦷

The father of anesthesia numbed himself to death. 🦷 . . . Horace Wells, the Connecticut dentist who introduced nitrous oxide to surgery in 1844, grew addicted to chloroform while testing it on himself. On January 21, 1848, he threw sulfuric acid at two women in New York. Three days later in the Tombs prison, he inhaled chloroform, then slashed his femoral artery. He was 33.