![With his patient seated under a sign reading “TEETH EXTRACTED WITHOUT PAIN,” a dentist asks, “Will you take gas, Sir?” The patient replies, “ER is there any risk eh” [sic]. “No sir,” answers the dentist. “I shall ask you to pay in ADVANCE, TO MAKE SURE.” Titled “Ran No Risks,” this undated illustration reflected the discomfort of a public that by the late 1930s was reading that many dental patients were receiving no oxygen at the start of their nitrous oxide anesthetics. Hand drawn by a cartoonist who signed his work as “AB,” this card is another delightful item in the Wood Library-Museum’s Ben Z. Swanson Collection. (Copyright © the American Society of Anesthesiologists’ Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology.)](https://asa2.silverchair-cdn.com/asa2/content_public/journal/anesthesiology/125/6/10.1097_aln.0000000000001423/3/m_18ff01.jpeg?Expires=1687368853&Signature=sk9dvpqbRBW0TJRVkqSKi-rqfUsujhTyCAto89NpPV6~gqAos5zGgWhvYfFZt58V~yxgFOvoSPEXpK8cOtQ1XV0mCdn52fzPVJkCuy9bhFp1Koccu5AgiB96KJ4oiIW97~5sBTANJSzIFPCRqglQFEvu8E2nncmxSTN4krePYYRJrjUrybGsQhPWGa8Zs4hC2kyl7qEU4r5iM-OL2kIdrr--Bl7IE-msrY9O7dSUd8tBtNB~QEN2sMg9k6LZ0bdFTlmZUlQ4Xnk1-jTSTgNiRnsYA1UaABfjvill-h1pMhXKMnOlfdpEccKjDU5eq5ibG63d-M3A6StPH3Ybwv~9lw__&Key-Pair-Id=APKAIE5G5CRDK6RD3PGA)
With his patient seated under a sign reading “TEETH EXTRACTED WITHOUT PAIN,” a dentist asks, “Will you take gas, Sir?” The patient replies, “ER is there any risk eh” [sic]. “No sir,” answers the dentist. “I shall ask you to pay in ADVANCE, TO MAKE SURE.” Titled “Ran No Risks,” this undated illustration reflected the discomfort of a public that by the late 1930s was reading that many dental patients were receiving no oxygen at the start of their nitrous oxide anesthetics. Hand drawn by a cartoonist who signed his work as “AB,” this card is another delightful item in the Wood Library-Museum’s Ben Z. Swanson Collection. (Copyright © the American Society of Anesthesiologists’ Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology.)
With his patient seated under a sign reading “TEETH EXTRACTED WITHOUT PAIN,” a dentist asks, “Will you take gas, Sir?” The patient replies, “ER is there any risk eh” [sic]. “No sir,” answers the dentist. “I shall ask you to pay in ADVANCE, TO MAKE SURE.” Titled “Ran No Risks,” this undated illustration reflected the discomfort of a public that by the late 1930s was reading that many dental patients were receiving no oxygen at the start of their nitrous oxide anesthetics. Hand drawn by a cartoonist who signed his work as “AB,” this card is another delightful item in the Wood Library-Museum’s Ben Z. Swanson Collection. (Copyright © the American Society of Anesthesiologists’ Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology.)
George S. Bause, M.D., M.P.H., Honorary Curator, ASA’s Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology, Schaumburg, Illinois, and Clinical Associate Professor, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. UJYC@aol.com.
