Chloroform and the Heart

Chloroform and Fatty Heart

To the Editor, "Indian Medical Gazette." Sir,?The conclusions of Chloroform Commission at Hyderabad seem to be that deaths duringchloroform inhalation are due to careless administration of the dru?-, and that it has no direct action on the heart, and there?is absolutely no risk if the attention of the administrator is concentrated upon the respiration. But deaths have occurred at the hands of b...

Chloroform

It was perhaps fitting that Lieut.-Colonel Edward Lawrie, should signalise the year of his retirement from the post of R,esidenc\r Surgeon at Hyderabad by the publication of a volume on Chloroform, a subject with which he has been identified for many years past, and in defence of his views on which, and those of his master Syme, he has fought non sine gloria for many }7ears. The introduction to...

Chloroform

O12: The Heart and the Brain: Stroke Induced Heart Damage

Cardiac diseases are common post-stroke and are associated with increased morbidity and mortality. One possible mechanism of acute cardiac injury is the neurogenic myocardial damage, where the cerebral injury is disturbing the normal sympathetic and parasympathetic neuronal outflow to the heart leading to cardiac damage including myocardial infarctions. The exact mechanism is not completely und...

The Hyderabad Chloroform Commissions

33. Almost like lesults were obtained by partially asphyxiating a clog as explained in the following experiment. The animal had been anaesthetised and its left carotid artery connected with both a Fick-Manometer and a Ludwio-'d spring-kymograph. It was arranged previously, that on eacli occasion on which a signal would be given, the chloroform cap was to be held closely over the mouth and nose,...