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... nitrous oxide or laughing gas , strikes a contrast between the action of that gas and of alcohol on mind and body . For the sake of experiment , Sir Humphry subjected himself systematically to an intoxicating draught of alcohol . He ...
... nitrous oxide or laughing gas , strikes a contrast between the action of that gas and of alcohol on mind and body . For the sake of experiment , Sir Humphry subjected himself systematically to an intoxicating draught of alcohol . He ...
Page 340
... nitrous oxide gas in the same observer . The description of the intoxication from nitrous oxide is taken again from a direct experimental and personal observation . Sir Humphry breathed nitrous oxide for a long time in a closed chamber ...
... nitrous oxide gas in the same observer . The description of the intoxication from nitrous oxide is taken again from a direct experimental and personal observation . Sir Humphry breathed nitrous oxide for a long time in a closed chamber ...
Page 341
... nitrous oxide for experiment's sake , he was led to make confession that a desire to breathe the gas was always awakened in him by the sight of a person breathing , or even by that of an air - bag or gasholder . ' Methylic and ethylic ...
... nitrous oxide for experiment's sake , he was led to make confession that a desire to breathe the gas was always awakened in him by the sight of a person breathing , or even by that of an air - bag or gasholder . ' Methylic and ethylic ...
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... nitrous oxide . I experience a sense of suffocation from nitrous oxide which I do not from methylic ether ; and certainly I can never forget the dream which once followed upon inhalation , not to complete but to all but complete ...
... nitrous oxide . I experience a sense of suffocation from nitrous oxide which I do not from methylic ether ; and certainly I can never forget the dream which once followed upon inhalation , not to complete but to all but complete ...
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