“The sun shines bright and white!
Takes the darkness away ain’t that right!
Then again even the night not so bad!
All that silence makes you glad”
This was a gas used like alcohol!
Of course it got used for medical reasons!
Started by a Chemist, popularised by a dentist and even Joker from Batman uses it!
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The moment I mentioned Joker I guess it was obvious that it was Laughing Gas!
The actual used of this is now in anesthesia but when Nitrous Oxide was discovered it was actually a recreational drug!
In fact this was gas which was used to get a high!
It was an addiction like smoking! In fact the chemist who described so many elements died by constantly inhaling it!
Even after the invention it was mainly used as a party pill!
Despite Davy’s discovery that inhalation of nitrous oxide could relieve a conscious person from pain, another 44 years elapsed before doctors attempted to use it for anaesthesia!
The use of nitrous oxide as a recreational drug at “laughing gas parties”, primarily arranged for the British upper class, became an immediate success beginning in 1799. While the effects of the gas generally make the user appear stuporous, dreamy and sedated, some people also “get the giggles” in a state of euphoria, and frequently erupt in laughter!
Only later a dental surgeon named Horace Wells used it as an anesthetic agent when it was realised 44 years after the discovery of this gas that it relieves pain!
Of course now it is not a primary anesthetic agent and acts mainly as an adjunct but it was a major push towards anesthesia and development of other more potent medications and drugs for relieving pain during surgery.
Now this gas has a new use!
In the early 1980’s, the low-dose dental titration technique was first used to investigate and treat psychiatric conditions, including substance abuse! The gas is now a research project for its use in Neuropsychiatry!
So if you meet a Neurologist or a psychologist at some time in future and if he or she is laughing even at your bland jokes then make sure there is no leak of the Laughing gas!
It is no laughing matter that Chetan Anand was an accomplished director and producer specially his series on Param Veer Chakra!
Now let those conversations and laughter cease cause this is the time to sleep!
Shubh Ratri!
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