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... f1cl\ \NAESTHESIA he anaesthetic properties of ether were discovered by Michael Faraday in 1818. ineteen years before that, another British chemist, Humphry Davy, anaesthetized imself with nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, which has since become so im- irtant in dental surgery. Then in 1847 chloroform was introduced by James oung Simpson, an Edinburgh physician. lough ether and chloroform are ...