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Precarious Distraction and Carious Extraction: Nitrous Oxide during the "Second World Billiards Tournament"
Sheng-Chieh Chang1, George S Bause2
1Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, 11100 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA.
Journal of Anesthesia History
|December 26, 2017
Abstract:
During the 1879 Brunswick & Balke World Billiards Tournament, Manager FC Newhall had a tooth extracted under nitrous oxide administered by GQ Colton. The dental extraction occurred at the tournament site, New York City's Cooper Institute.