INHALATIONAL ANESTHESIA
At the Oracle of Delphi, the Pythia entered her trance by inhaling sweet-smelling noxious fumes coming from deep fissures underneath the temple…
Traces of a certain anesthetic agent have been found; Which is it !?
A. Ether
B. Cyclopropane
C. Methoxyflurane
D. Nitrous Oxide
E. Trichloroethylene
At the Oracle of Delphi, Apollo’s Pythian priestesses utter prophecies after breathing in fumes emanating from geologic faultlines beneath the Temple to Apollo.
One of the inhaled gases may have been ethylene, an inhalational anesthetic popular clinically in the mid-1920s AD