Emerging from tabloid scandal: Dr. U.K. Mayo's Vegetable Vapor extends nitrous oxide's anesthetic duration

•Scandalous divorce, litigation, and court costs left Boston dentist UK Mayo bankrupt.•Mayo added sedative herbs to improve quality and duration of nitrous-oxide anesthesia.•His 1883 patent supplemented nitrous oxide with an alcohol infusion of hops and opium. Urial K. Mayo (1816–1900) was a success...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Journal of anesthesia history 2020-09, Vol.6 (3), p.166-167
Hauptverfasser:	Justinger, Jacob S., Bause, George S.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Anesthesia, history of Ethanol History of medicine and histology Hypnotics and sedatives Mayo Mayo, Urial K Nitrous oxide Opioids
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Zusammenfassung:	•Scandalous divorce, litigation, and court costs left Boston dentist UK Mayo bankrupt.•Mayo added sedative herbs to improve quality and duration of nitrous-oxide anesthesia.•His 1883 patent supplemented nitrous oxide with an alcohol infusion of hops and opium. Urial K. Mayo (1816–1900) was a successful Boston dentist who was plagued by personal scandal. In 1883 he patented extending the duration of nitrous-oxide anesthesia with an alcoholic tincture of hops and poppies.
ISSN:	2352-4529 2352-4537
DOI:	10.1016/j.janh.2020.07.002