, 1864-01-25
TEETH EXTRACTED WITHOUT
PAIN.


Editors Chicago Tribune:
was glad to see copied into the TalBuNE o!
oxyn Gas as published In the last number Of tic
Pfot1t's DenfI Journal.
This article giyes Just such information as tho
people need, aud Ia Just such an one as would be
expected rom him. He docs not extol thia agent
aboye ite merits as an sunsthetic. He does not
condemn lis nse, but shows tho Importance Of Its
properly cautions the public against allowing den
lists to administer 1t to them who ignorant OF
its properties, as well is from those who are
not qualified to Judge when lts use would be IN"
Tbs Doctors article is discreet and timely. Tho
appropriateness Of his admonitton to the public to
been demonstrated by the death Of patient in
New York since his article was Published.
But an experience with this gas for oger twenty
years, as eource Of an amusement, and more re-
Gently as an annsthefc agent for extracting teeth
has demonstrated beyond all question, that when
Is absolutely pure and p5opsF{ administered Il
Fret Of last May occasionally used this agent for
hs 1Pst @ I oss
cities. I have administered 1t for the attraction
OF over eeyeu thousand teeth, and hare
as rat It's pRsaen Dulng IT.
manufactnre and useit. But have always felt it.
,ansbt, lie Importance q great caro- IN maxim the
gas, ae well as their refusal to administer It to
ihoee in certaIn condition Of health. That the In
a,aion Of this agent ~ well as that Of ehtoroform
stances and conditions of health, is highly impsop-
cr and dangerous to life. thins no man Of sense
can doubt. Knowing, as do. how very imperfect
ia very large majority Of The apparatus nsed for
preparing this gas for ose, and how uuconcened1y
many administer It. my only wonder is TINT
the Corone1's services have nctsoo been called
into re4uisltlon. But from my own e1porlence
with It, and from Information l have from those
who have used 1t even more than hare, 1t soems
to nc that any impartial person must consider 1t,
when properly used, the safest anHsthetlc agent
known to the scientific world.
As Df. AIlport eaid nothing In his article about
The apparatus that he uses for making this gas.
that 6c nees It at all IN bis p1actice wonld: in
Justice to him, take occasion TO say that during
Il last eight months think I hare seen about
every form Of apparatus that has ever been used
juet1ce cay that have seen none, when every pos
e1bilIty againet the obtaining Of an impure gas is
20 thoroughly guarded against, and 60 perfect In
sse asea b 5fR b. Alpelt 5a II lis cy - ''
From information have obtained from New
York through the prcae, as well q from private
sources In reference to the death from 1ts use IN
The entist was not veil qualified 10 administer #.
Aiso from the apparatus used for generating the
gas, It is hardly possible that It conld hare been
pure, ard that the patient who inhaled it was a
eonfrmtd coneq%ptiys one Ct bis lgngs was
diecaec." The same patient wonld undoubtedly
have died from the effects Of chlosotorm Or ether
In concluslon wish TO say, that whilst all those
Ills 10 be by far The safest ansathctic agent known
to tho world even when administered 3ndist7fus-
fndtey az stated In the article referred to- the pub
lie cannot be too cautious about tr!hing with this
seent or In allowing those to administer 1t 10 them
Who are ignorant OF It's nature
Jan. I'D, 1874. GEO. c, hussoH.