From ACE to ACENO: How America's Munson added Harley's British mixture to nitrous oxide.

Authors :: Shah SP
Bause GS
Source :: Journal of anesthesia history [J Anesth Hist] 2020 Sep; Vol. 6 (3), pp. 168-169. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Jul 16.
Publication Year :: 2020
Abstract: An Ohio dentist, Corydon Munson, patented a gasometer with an attachment for vaporizing trace amounts of volatile general anesthetics or their mixtures into unoxygenated nitrous oxide. After vaporizing a variant of George Harley's ACE mixture into nitrous oxide, Munson branded his own novel anesthetic combination as ACENO.<br /> (Copyright © 2020 Anesthesia History Association. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)

Subjects :: Alcohols history
Anesthesia, Dental instrumentation
Anesthetics, Inhalation chemistry
Chloroform history
Ether history
History, 19th Century
United Kingdom
United States
Anesthesia, Dental history
Anesthetics, Inhalation history
Dental Equipment history
Nebulizers and Vaporizers history
Nitrous Oxide history

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