The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-07-03
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OAA Antics Under It's lnnuence-Th
Rhenonenal Case OF Hannah Deal !.

OAA Antics Under It's lnnuence-The
Phenonenal Case OF Hannah Deal
The case of Miss Hannah Deal, narrated
much discussion. DIR. Cotton was yester
day interviewed in reference to its pecu-
liarities. He said: 1.-THE woman's in
sanity was undoubtedly the result of re-
ligious monomania. The extraction OF so
many teeth may have had something to
do with it, but that the laughing gas was
the cause, is not the fact. One case
against one hundred odd thousand proves
this incontestably. Let me explain. The
action of this gas is very simple, nitrous
oxide being neither more nor less than
pure oxygen, mixed with nitrogen. Now
the proportion of oxygen in pure air is
| one-ffth, in nitrous oxide gas onethird.
Inhalation, therefore, simply exhilarates
the person using it. Why? Because at
the very breath they inhale the abnormally
oxydized air." "And the nitrogen, doctor
what about thats' "Well, the effect of
the nitrogen l can hardly tell you; there
are various opinions, none of which, how
ever, have been fully and satisfactorily In
vestigated. myself think that, inhaled
as given, its effect is q negative one. AT
least it does not in any way enter into the
question of the action Of laughing gas up
on the human system, as we are looking
| at it. To explain more clearly, the blood
| in flowing from the heart, before 1t reach.
es the lungs, is vinous, black blood and
contains no oxygen. The moment it sur
rounds the air cells of the lungs it becomes
impregnated, and is changed into artcrial
or red blood, and, in this, its normal state
flows through the body, supplying al
nitrous oxide gas is simply to increase the
amount of oxygen taken into the system
at each inhalation, and TO quicken the
flow Of the blood, the pulse being from
fifteen to twenty, and by lightning, as II
were, the body to cause exhilaration; this
carried beyond the point where laughter
becomes natural state Of being-becaust
all surroundings have become metamor
phosed, and are pleasant, ludicrous OF fun
ny, but never serious. sad or horrible
becomes sleep, and, as in sleep, ,he nerv
Gus functions of the body become quies
cent, and the patient or person under 1T
influence insensible to pain. -.
The doctor here mentioned cases to shov
, that people suffering even from the wors
kind of organic diseases have with safet,
taken the gas, had their teeth extracted
and gone away without suffering incon
venience, when, to have attempted to hav
operated upon them while they were i
their normal conditions would not onl
= have been dangerous but impossible
"Simi,ar cases." said the doctor, "ar
treated every day, and are by no mean
3 incidental This divergence from Mif
: Deals case is for the purpose Of shown
a that she, woman in fair health, ran n
+ risk whatever in inhaling the gas; tina
| in fact, as SAID at first, she became insan
from other causes, or that her case ws
Y wholly phenomenal"
An exhibition of the gas was given ,
q Cooper Institute yesterday to ladies onl.
The first who ventured was young An
beautiful girl with sweet. pale face, and
s saint-likc expression, as she came forwar
J. with downcast eyes and hands meekl
d folded. All thought, as she came undt
e the influence, that from her lips woul
come the words of some simple childlis
r prayer. But alas! for appearances, in a
!. instant the whole expression changes
!. then came burst of wild laughter. the
. the words, "If body kiss body need
body cry" was merrily sung out, and b
fore the doctor, who had hold of her arm
U could escape, she left most emphat
8 kiss upon his cheek. A roar of laught'
from the spectators greeted this, and II
q Door doctor, with u flushed face, gent
shook her awake.
nj Then came fair one of that uncertai
ell age somewhere between the teens an
, fifties. With very spinsterial cxpressio
o she gently took hold of her nose befol
1 breathing the gas. Then the fun bega
With one arm round the doctors nee
she rushed across the stage at breaknec
$ speed, dragging him with her. He trie
7 TO pull away, but in vain, her loving arm
Z were like the coil of the bOaconstricto
q on she went, he with her Then she b
b gan the most wonderful pirouettes. Fam
Ellsler's spirit seemed to have taken pc
"a session of her. Her hose were scarlet
+ this fact was apparent to the lookerso o
4 The sort of double shuttle, his face Il
r. picture of horror, hers radiant with d
3 light. She had found partner at las
i. But suddenly she was herself again, al
let go of him so suddenly that he fell bat
as il shot from cannon.