Part 50

—— symptoms of, from chloroform, 124, 127–28, 130, 131, 135, 137, 139–41, 142, 143, 144, 146, 147, 148, 149, 151, 153, 154, 155–6, 157–8, 159, 161, 162, 163–4, 165, 166, 167–8, 170–1, 172–3, 174–5, 175–6, 176–7, 177–8, 178–9, 180–1, 182–3, 185–6, 187–8, 189, 190, 191, 192–4, 195–6, 197

—— from chloroform, cases of alleged, 201, 203, 204, 205, 209

—— mode of, in accidents from chloroform, 217

—— supposed causes of, from chloroform, 228–45; age, 230–31; idiosyncracy, 231–2; impurity of chloroform, 233; apparatus employed, 233; exclusion of air, 233–4; closure of the glottis, 234–8; exhaustion from struggling, 238–9; sitting posture, 239–40; effect of surgeon’s knife, 240–3; sudden death from other causes, 243–5; falling back of the tongue, 245

Death, sudden, from other causes during inhalation of chloroform, 244–5

—— during operations without anæsthetics, 245

Debout, Dr., on amylene, 375, 406, 418

Delarue, M., on titillation of the uvula during accidents from chloroform, 257–8

Delirium cum tremore, treatment of, by chloroform, 333–4

—— in fever, 334–5

Delphos, Priestess of, intoxicated by narcotic fumes, 11

Demarquay, M., on closure of the glottis by chloroform, 234

Diagram of chloroform inhaler, 82

—— of ether inhaler, 349

Dinners, late, a cause of hæmorrhoids, 307

Dioscorides, on decoction of mandragora, 1

—— on symptoms from mandragora, 3

Discovery of anæsthetics, importance of, 1–2

Dislocations, reduction of, under chloroform, 302–3

Devergie, M., on closure of the glottis by chloroform, 234

—— on death from amylene, 415

Dominus Hugo, his recipe for a narcotic, 5–6

—— his prescription for a local application, 6

Dumas, M., on analysis of chloroform and name, 27

Duroy, M., anæthesimeter of, 85

—— on amylene, 375–6

Dutch liquid, nature of, 27

Ear, operations on, under chloroform, 298