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Etherdome " review by Alfred Hickling

Lowry, SalfordAmerica in the 1850s was fertile ground for hucksters, snake-oil salesmen and colourfully obsolete verbs " "swandangled", for instance. Penny Dreadful's melodramatic medicine show presents three people with competing claims to have discovered anaesthesia: Horace Wells, a dentist who developed the use of nitrous oxide, or laughing gas; Charles T Jackson, a Boston physician who experimented with the inhal…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 1:29pm on October 14, 2011

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