Etherdome " review
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…