Jay, Mike (Author)
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Volume: 63
Pages: 297--309
Edition Details: Part of a special issue.
Language: English
Thomas Beddoes's and Humphry Davy's accounts of the nitrous oxide experiments carried out at the Pneumatic Institution in 1799 include extravagant descriptions of its mind-altering effects. Many people, both at the time and subsequently, have considered these descriptions to be the product not of the gas but of its subjects' overheated imaginations. To what extent were these effects `all in the mind' of the experimenters? Modern understandings of nitrous oxide throw new light on this question; but it was also considered, and resolved in different ways, by Beddoes and Davy themselves.
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