The summer of 1799 saw a new fad take hold in one remarkable circle of British society: the inhalation of 'Laughing Gas.' The overseer and pioneer of these experiments was a young Humphry Davy, future President of the Royal Society.
Davy's extreme and near-fatal regime of self-experimentation with the gas not only marked a new era in the history of science but a turn toward the philosophical and literary romanticism of the century to come.
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