Chloroform in Cases of Scorpion Bite
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Recently, however, my own baby was stung by a scorpion. I gave him whiffs of chloroform and within two minutes he went under. The anaesthesia lasted for about ten minutes. Only for this short ^while was the child quiet. As soon as he came round, he began to cry as loudly as before, and the pain and suffering were as intense as ever. After about 3 hours, exhausted by crying and probably relieved by some local application that we had tried, he went to sleep. Chloroform had completely failed to relieve him. I did not inject novocain locally because it has only
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