Nitrous Oxide

You know how, during the Preflight Safety Demonstration, flight attendants tell you that in the event of an emergency, oxygen masks will pop out of the ceiling? My question is: Who wants oxygen? If I'm going to be in an emergency seven miles up, I want nitrous oxide, followed immediately by Emergency Intravenous Beverage Cart Service, so that I and my fellow passengers can be as relaxed as possible. ("Wow! Those are some beautiful engine flames!")
-- Dave Barry

• The essay Subjective Effects of Nitrous Oxide by William James.
• An illustration, worth a thousand words, on one of the visual distortions associated with the nitrous experience.
• Some important health considerations for nitrous users regarding vitamin B₁₂ and oxygen deprivation.
• Learn how nitrous oxide does its thing, in the page on the action of N₂O.
• More good information about nitrous oxide.
• Here are some references to nitrous oxide in the medical literature.
• And here's a note on the synthesis of nitrous oxide.
• And here's how to get help in getting the NO₂ out of your N₂O.
• An interesting subjective description of the effects of nitrous oxide as an anesthetic for dental surgery.
• The Atlantic Monthly did a report on William James and other turn-of-the-century nitrous experimenters: The Nitrous Oxide Philosopher
• A review of "The Anaesthetic Revelation and the Gist of Philosophy" by William James.
• You can't do much better for information than to read the hypertext N₂O FAQ.
• Introduction to Anaesthetics.
• Effect of nitrous oxide on folate and vitamin B12 metabolism in patients. Abstract and indexing information.
• Disruption of folate and vitamin B12 metabolism in aged rats following exposure to nitrous oxide. Abstract and indexing information.
• Human temperature regulation during sub-anesthetic levels of nitrous oxide-induced narcosis (and the effect on shivering thermogenesis) -- an abstract.
• Researches on Nitrous Oxide by Humphrey Davy -- excerpts.
• Nitrous Oxide Sedation in pediatric dentistry.
• Inhalation analgesia with premixed nitrous oxide - Oxygen Entonox.
• The Paranoia Nitrous Oxide Archive.

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