Was America's mad dentist the real life Dr Jekyll?

HE was the controversial American dentist who pioneered the use of laughing gas as an anaesthetic, went mad and died in prison ... HE was the controversial American dentist who pioneered the use of laughing gas as an anaesthetic, went mad and died in prison ... but now, more than a century and a half after his tragic death, fellow medics are trying to work out whether Horace Wells was the real life inspiration behind Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Extensive research is now underway to try to pinpoint if Wells - who was recognised after his death as one of the founding fathers of anaesthetics - was immortalised in Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson's masterpiece the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

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