"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. Mike Jay explores how 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."Apparently the fad of inhaling nitrous oxide was revived in the 1960s by kids seeking kicks. They claimed it mimicked the effects of psychedelic drugs at a much lower price and was easier to obtain.
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