DEATH DURING CHLOROFORM ANÆSTHESIA.

On the Use of Scopolamine, Morphine and Atropine during Chloroform Anæsthesia

of scopolamine, morphine, and atropine as a preliminary to the induction of anaesthesia by chloroform, with a view to the prevention of post-operative shock, a most important result, and one that would appear to be due less to the scopolamine and morphine whether singly or in combination, and more to the atropine; and which does not appear to be so widely appreciated as it deserves. During the ...

Death under Chloroform

An unexplained death: Hannah Greener and chloroform.

HANNAH Greener of Winlaton, near Newcastle in the United Kingdom, died more than 150 yr ago, on January 28, 1848, after receiving a chloroform anesthetic for the removal of a toenail. She was a healthy 15-yr-old girl who had successfully undergone an anesthetic with diethyl ether several months before for the removal of another toenail. Hers was the first death (fig. 1) attributed to the new an...

A Case of Aphasia during Spinal Anæsthesia

Mixed Anæsthesia

The newest tliinjr in surgery is mixed anaesthesia, or mixed narcosis hs sgme prefer to cull it. The idea itself is comparatively old, and chloroform and morphia hare been used together in various ways for the production of anaesthesia ill hospitals, both at home and abroad in a fitful and experimental sort of way, for some three or four years past. But in this country, at all events as far as ...