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![Lamballe made the first application of etherization in France, at the Hospital St. Louis. The year following, and only a few months after (in February, 1847), Sedillot proposed to substitute hydrochloric ether for sulphuric. A month later, viz., March 8th, Flourens, in a communication to the Academy of Sciences, studied comparatively the an- aesthesia produced by sulphuric ether and that de- termined by hydrochloric ether, and proposed to employ a body which Soubeiran had discovered in 1830, and which resembled in many respects hydro- chloric ether; this was chloroform. In the month of November of the same year, Simpson, of Edinburgh, applied the anaesthetic effects of chloroform to the human subject, and thereafter this new anaesthetic became the rival of ether in the production of surgical anaesthesia. [Though chloroform is more speedy in its action, and produces more complete relaxation of the mus- cular system than ether, and though the after-effects are unquestionably somewhat pleasanter, yet ether is everywhere recognized as the safer anaesthetic, and on account of the many sudden deaths which have followed the administration of chloroform, the use of this anaesthetic in some parts of the world is (at least by popular and medical sentiment) condemned.] It is a curious fact, moreover, that while the whole world was celebrating the benefits of surgical anaes- thesia, he who was the first to think of applying](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21026622_0021.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
