How Victorians Turned Anesthesia Into Entertainment
In the nineteenth century, Victorian England discovered something unusual: a powerful anesthetic that could produce laughter, euphoria, and a remarkably convenient escape from ordinary life. What followed was a strange world of ether parties, medical experiments, fashionable intoxication, and a society slowly convincing itself this was all perfectly respectable.
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