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Researches chemical and philosophical: chiefly concerning nitrous oxide or dephlogisticated nitrous air and its respiration / By Humphry Davy.

Last week but one, Wednesday, March 15, and Friday, 17, 1826 : M. Henry will have the honour of repeating his third annual entertainment of "Table Talk", under the title of Odd Sayings and Queer Doings, introductory of his novel and astonishing illusions metamorphoses, prestiges, &c. &c.

Doctor and Mrs Syntax, with other elderly people, taking laughing gas in the house of a tooth-drawer in Paris. Coloured aquatint, 1820.

A man dancing and laughing as a result of the effects of nitrous oxide gas. Engraving.

A man breathing in nitrous oxide (laughing gas) and a man exhibiting its exhilarating effects. Wood engraving, c. 1840.

Researches, chemical and philosophical : chiefly concerning nitrous oxide, or diphlogisticated nitrous air, and its respiration / by Humphry Davy.

Practical notes on nitrous oxide (N2O) : a brochure / by J. Ottley Atkinson.

A manual of nitrous oxide anaesthesia : for the use of students and general practitioners / by J. Fredk. W. Silk.

Researches on the medical properties and applications of nitrous oxide, protoxide of nitrogen, or laughing gas / By Geo. J. Ziegler.

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Researches, chemical and philosophical : chiefly concerning nitrous oxide, or diphlogisticated nitrous air, and its respiration / by Humphry Davy.

Practical notes on nitrous oxide (N2O) : a brochure / by J. Ottley Atkinson.

A man dancing and laughing as a result of the effects of nitrous oxide gas. Engraving.

A manual of nitrous oxide anaesthesia : for the use of students and general practitioners / by J. Fredk. W. Silk.

Researches on the medical properties and applications of nitrous oxide, protoxide of nitrogen, or laughing gas / By Geo. J. Ziegler.