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Risus sardonicus and laughing gas – when nitrous oxide lost its innocence
Author(s) -
KRISTENSEN H. SUND,
BERTHELSEN P. G.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
acta anaesthesiologica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.738
H-Index - 107
eISSN - 1399-6576
pISSN - 0001-5172
DOI - 10.1111/j.1399-6576.1994.tb03995.x
Subject(s) - medicine , nitrous oxide , nothing , innocence , anesthesia , pain relief , psychoanalysis , epistemology , psychology , philosophy
Relief from pain is purchased always at a price. The price in both morbidity and mortality does not greatly differ whatever the agent or agents used. Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. Winston Churchill. R. M. Waters 1994