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Horace Wells
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Horace Wells was an American dentist who pioneered the use of anesthesia in medicine, specifically the use of nitrous oxide. Although he was urged to patent his discovery, he never did, believing that
Horace Wells Portrait
Horace Wells Portrait
Statue of Horace Wells in Hartford, Connecticut
Statue of Horace Wells in Hartford, Connecticut
Horace Wells Burial Monument (1909), Cedar Hills Cemetery, Hartford, Connecticut (Louis Potter, sculptor).
Horace Wells Burial Monument (1909), Cedar Hills Cemetery, Hartford, Connecticut (Louis Potter, sculptor).
Statue of Horace Wells in Paris
Statue of Horace Wells in Paris
Cedar Hill Cemetery (Hartford, Connecticut)
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Cedar Hill Cemetery in Hartford, Connecticut, United States, is located at 453 Fairfield Avenue. It was designed by landscape architect Jacob Weidenmann, who also designed Hartford's Bushnell Park. It
Horace Wells
…on January 24, slitting his left femoral artery with a razor after inhaling an analgesic dose of chloroform. He died at the age of 33. He is buried at Cedar Hill Cemetery in Hartford, Connecticut. Twelve days before his death, the Parisian Medical Society voted and honored him as the first to discover and perform surgical…
Cemetery entrance at intersection of Fairfield and Maple Avenues in Hartford, CT
Cemetery entrance at intersection of Fairfield and Maple Avenues in Hartford, CT
The Mark Howard monument, one of Cedar Hill's most famous
The Mark Howard monument, one of Cedar Hill's most famous
The grave of Katharine Hepburn
The grave of Katharine Hepburn
Family plot of Yung Wing, the first Chinese graduate of an American university, Yale
Family plot of Yung Wing, the first Chinese graduate of an American university, Yale