On chloroform and other anæsthetics: their action and administration
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JOHN SNOW, M.D.
LICENTIATE OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS.
EDITED,
WITH A MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR,
BENJAMIN W. RICHARDSON, M.D.,
LICENTIATE OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS.
LONDON:
JOHN CHURCHILL, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.
MDCCCLVIII.
The book here presented to the reader is the legacy to science of Dr. John Snow. The completion of the work was his last act and deed. In editing the book, therefore, all that remained to be done consisted in the construction of the index, and in this a plan suggested by the author himself has been followed.
John Snow
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PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION.
GENERAL REMARKS ON INHALATION.
CHLOROFORM.
PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF CHLOROFORM.
CIRCUMSTANCES WHICH INFLUENCE OR MODIFY THE EFFECTS OF CHLOROFORM.
AMOUNT OF VAPOUR OF CHLOROFORM ABSORBED TO CAUSE THE VARIOUS DEGREES OF NARCOTISM.
PREPARATIONS FOR INHALING CHLOROFORM.
MODE OF ADMINISTERING CHLOROFORM.
RECOVERY FROM THE EFFECTS OF CHLOROFORM.
OCCASIONAL SEQUELÆ OF THE INHALATION OF CHLOROFORM.
CAUSE AND PREVENTION OF DEATH FROM CHLOROFORM.
FATAL CASES OF INHALATION OF CHLOROFORM.
ALLEGED FATAL CASES OF INHALATION OF CHLOROFORM.
SYMPTOMS IN THE FATAL CASES OF INHALATION OF CHLOROFORM.
MODE OF DEATH IN THE ACCIDENTS FROM CHLOROFORM.
THE TWO KINDS OF SYNCOPE.
SUPPOSED CAUSES OF DEATH FROM CHLOROFORM.
STATE OF THE CHIEF ORGANS AFTER DEATH FROM CHLOROFORM.
FURTHER REMARKS ON THE PREVENTION OF ACCIDENTS FROM CHLOROFORM.
TREATMENT OF SUSPENDED ANIMATION FROM CHLOROFORM.
EFFECT OF CHLOROFORM ON THE RESULT OF OPERATIONS.
THE ADMINISTRATION OF CHLOROFORM IN THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF OPERATIONS.
CHLOROFORM IN PARTURITION.
THE INHALATION OF CHLOROFORM IN MEDICAL CASES.
SULPHURIC ETHER, OR ETHER.
AMYLENE.
INDEX.
