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—— sulphuric ether, and amylene, effects of, compared, 403–5

Chowne, Dr., cases of hysteria treated with chloroform, 339–41

Circumstances which influence or modify the effects of chloroform, 48

Clarke, Mr., on amylene, 418

Clement, Mr., on case of death from chloroform, 145–6

Clover, Mr., his mode of administering chloroform, 184

Cockle, Dr., on the circulation in the coronary arteries, 262

Cocks, Mr. W. G. H., on treatment of laryngismus stridulus with chloroform, 332

Colston, Mr. G. Q., administration of nitrous oxyde by, 14–15

Combination of chloroform and ether, 369–71

—— case of supposed death from inhalation of, 370

Consciousness, recovery of, after chloroform, 98

Consumption, treatment of, by ether, 14, 360

Convulsions, epileptiform, in fatal case from chloroform, 191

—— infantile, use of chloroform in, 332–3

—— puerperal, use of chloroform in, 337–9

—— treatment of, with ether, 359

Corfe, Dr., report of a post-mortem after death from chloroform, 181–2

Countenance, expression of, under amylene, 401

Crockett, Dr., on a case of supposed death from combination of chloroform and ether, 370

Croup, spasmodic, use of chloroform in, 331–2

Davy, Sir Humphrey, experiments of, with nitrous oxyde, 14

—— suggested use of nitrous oxyde by, to remove pain of operations, 14

Death from chloroform without insensibility, 79–133

—— cause and prevention of, from chloroform, 107–20

—— under chloroform from paralysis of heart, 131, 138, 141, 143, 151, 156, 165, 178–9, 181, 186, 189, 196

—— two modes of, from chloroform, 135

—— from chloroform, cases of, 120–200, see Operations, fatal

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