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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Published inJournal of anesthesia history Vol. 6; no. 3; pp. 166 - 167
Main Authors Justinger, Jacob S., Bause, George S.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier Inc 01.09.2020
Subjects
Anesthesia, history of
Ethanol
History of medicine and histology
Hypnotics and sedatives
Mayo
Mayo, Urial K
Nitrous oxide
Opioids
Nitrous oxide
Ethanol
Anesthesia, history of
Mayo, Urial K
Opioids
Hypnotics and sedatives
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Summary:•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.
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ISSN:2352-4529
2352-4537
DOI:10.1016/j.janh.2020.07.002