Horace Wells Plaque
Catalog Record: Horace Wells Plaque
Access Key: alev
Accession No.: 2005-03-04-1 B
Title: 160th anniversary celebration: Horace Wells 1844-2004 discovery of anesthesia.
Title variation: Alt Title
Title: Wells 160th Anniversary plaque.
Publisher: Connecticut : Mr. Trophy & Co., [2004].
Physical Descript: 1 trophy : acrylic ; 22 x 11 x 5.5 cm.
Subject: Awards and Prizes.
Subject: Wells, Horace, 1815-1848.
Note Type: General
Notes: Date of publication based on the year that the celebration, for which the
trophy was made, was held. The date range could change if documentation, or
expert opinion, indicates that it should be corrected.
Note Type: Citation
Notes: Gies WJ. Horace Wells, Dentist: Father of Surgical Anesthesia. [Hartford,
Conn.]: [American Dental Association], 1948.
Note Type: Citation
Notes: Haridas RP. Horace wells’ demonstration of nitrous oxide in Boston.
Anesthesiology. 2013;119(5):1014-1022.
Note Type: Citation
Notes: [Pamphlet and program documents from the] 160th Anniversary Celebration of
Horace Well’s Discovery of Anesthesia. Horace Wells biographical file.
Located at : Wood Library Museum of Anesthesiology, Schaumburg, Illinois.
Note Type: Physical Description
Notes: One tear-shaped acrylic trophy on a rectangular base; The acrylic is a
transparent green, and marked on the back so that the following is readable
from the front, “160th Anniversary Celebration [new line] Horace Wells [new
line] 1844-2004 [new line] Discovery of [new line] Anesthesia]”; A
transparent sticker on the base of the trophy is marked with, “MR. TROPHY &
CO> [new line] Hartford (860) 246-2579 [new line] No. Haven (203) 239-9637”.
Note Type: Reproduction
Notes: Photographed by Mr. Steve Donisch, February 13, 2014.
Note Type: Publication
Notes: Smith GB, H NP. Gardner Quincy Colton: pioneer of nitrous oxide anesthesia.
Anesth Analg. 1991;72(3):382-391. https://journals.lww.
com/anesthesia-analgesia/Citation/1991/03000/Gardner_Quincy_Colton__Pioneer_o
_Nitrous_Oxide.17.aspx. January 22, 2015.
Note Type: Exhibition
Notes: Displayed in the ASA Park Ridge Headquarters in a “Pioneers of Anesthesia”
cabinet from approximately 2010-2014; Selected for the WLM website.