Chloroform : a manual for students and practitioners / by Edward Lawrie.

  • Lawrie, Edward.
Date:
1901
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Credit: Chloroform : a manual for students and practitioners / by Edward Lawrie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    various observers were no less contradictory. Waklcy and others had found that when animals were poisoned with chloroform the respiration stopped before the heart; but the Committee of 1864 ot the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, who first employed scientific instruments in the investiga- tion, arrived at the conclusion that chloroform is dangerous to the heart and weakens it. This was however merely an inference from their discovery that it lowers the blood pressure. In 1879 the Committee of the British Medical Association con- cluded that direct paralysis of the heart is produced by chloroform, and that it may sometimes be sudden and capricious, because, as they discovered, the fall of the blood pressure under chloroform is sometimes sudden and apparently capricious. This was the state of the physiological side of the chloroform question in 1889, when the Hyderabad Commission was appointed for the purpose of deciding whether chloroform does or does not affect the heart directly. “Two Commissions to examine