Insanity from Chloroform
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During a discussion in the early part of the present session, at the Westminster Medical Society, when a paper was read by Professor Murphy, advocating the use of chloroform in midwifery, Dr. Webster, according to the reports published in the medical journals, mentioned three cases of insanity supervening after the employment of the above powerful agent during childbirth; to which he afterwards added a fourth case of the same description. Considering these examples of mental disease are interesting to the profession, and well worth recording, they are therefore transferred to the pages of The Psychological Journal. Case I.?In this instance the patient, who had been delivered under the influence of chloroform, was, for three days subsequently, constantly incoherent and rambling. She soon afterwards became
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