Chloroform Its Properties and Safety in Childbirth Classic Reprint

Excerpt from Chloroform<br/><br/>ON the fourth Of November, Professor Simpson discovered the anaesthetic power of chloroform. Regardless of all risk and in the true Spirit of science, he became the subject Of his first experiment, inhaled the vapour to test its value; and having thus ascertained its properties, this agent was applied by him to assuage the sufferings of parturition. Its power was soon demonstrated; and Dr. Simpson at. Once published his discovery to the world.