Remarks on the Superinduction of Anaesthesia in Natural and Morbid Parturition; With Cases Illustrative of the Use and Effects of Chloroform in Obstet - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1848 Excerpt: ... APPENDIX. Many distinguished members of the Medical Profession, have furnished us with their testimonials in relation to the use of Chloroform, from which we select the following: Lktteb Prom John C. vabren, M. D., Emeritus Professor of Anatomy and Surgery in the University at Cambridge, and Surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital. Boston, Feb. 2, 1848. Messrs. Little & Co.,--Three or four days since I received your note, informing me of your intention to republish Professor Simpson's pamphlet on the use of Chloroform in Midwifery, and of your wish that I should give an account of my experience of this article in Surgical Practice. Although the time allotted for the purpose is too short to allow me to give a full statement, I shall readily comply with your request, so far as to send you some few remarks. This I do the more willingly as a return for your polite attention in exhibiting to me the actual process for making Chloroform, and because the first information of the discovery of Chloroform appeared here after the printing of the principal part of my remarks on Etherization; so that I had little opportunity, before the actual publication was made, of experimenting on its use. Immediately on being acquainted with the discovery of Chloroform, and its application to Etherization, I determined to give it a fair trial, and to make up, as far as I was able, a faithful judgment of its value. The result I shall communicate of course very briefly. Chloric Ether was discovered in this country in the year 1831, by Mr. Guthrie, in consequence of some experiments performed by him, on the suggestion of Professor Silliman, for the purpose of manufacturing the chloric ether of the Dutch chemists. Chloroform is the product of the redistillation of chloric ether with a...

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