On the administration of Chloroform, in opposition to Professor Lister's views...

On the administration of Chloroform, in opposition to Professor Lister's views as contained in his article 'Anaesthetics' in Holme's 'System of Surgery'. Author's holograph MS. Produced in London.

1 volume 9 ll. 8vo. 18 x 11 cm. Unbound. Written on the rectos of sheets of address-stamped note-paper.

Presented 1935 (accession 79763)

The author has written in pencil on the first leaf '1st Outline for Brit. Med. Journal'. It was printed in that publication on September 2, 1871, under the title 'Chloroform accidents'. In it Clover strongly contradicted Lister's views on the method of giving chloroform on a towel, and claimed that it was more important to watch the respiration rather than the pulse of the patient.

From the Dudley Buxton Collection.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).