Part 51

Eastment, Mr., case by, of alleged death from ether, 368–9

Effect of chloroform on the results of operations, 263–70

Elbow, excision of, under chloroform, 279–80

Electricity, use of, in a fatal case from chloroform, 166

—— value of, during accidents from chloroform, 261–2

—— use of, in case of death of from amylene, 413

Emphysema, in a fatal case from chloroform, 148

Epilepsy, influence of chloroform on, 52

—— use of chloroform in, 336–7

Esdaile, Dr., on hypnotism in the Hindoos, 10

Ether, sulphuric, or ether, 15 to 27, 345 to 371

—— effects of, vapour, described by Faraday, 15

—— effects experimentally shewn by Professor Turner, 16

—— vapour as an anæsthetic, discovery of, 15, 16, 17

—— application of, summary, 17, 18

—— treatment of diseases by, 19

—— supposed death from, 20

—— use of, in Massachusetts Hospital, Boston, Philadelphia, New York, Naples, and Lyons, 23

—— action of, on nervous centres, 45

—— administered for operation for removal of pus from frontal sinus, 302

—— history and composition of, 345

—— chemical and physical properties, 345–9

—— physiological effects of, 349–55

Ether, sulphuric, administration of, 356–8

—— —— in medical cases, 358–61

—— great safety of, 22–3, 362

—— alleged deaths from, 362–9

—— chloroform and amylene, effects of, compared, 403–5