Part 63

Prevention of accidents from chloroform, further remarks on, 248–51

Prolapsus ani, operations for, under chloroform, 305–7

Propert, Mr., case of, where lithotrity was performed under chloroform after apoplexy, 56–7

Pupils, state of, under chloroform, 93–4, 158

Pulse, effect of chloroform on, 43–4, 77, 89

—— before and after inhalation of chloroform, 77–8

Rabbits, experiments on, with chloroform, 117

Recovery from effects of chloroform, 97, 98, 99, 100

Regnault, M. M. G., discovery of the monochlorurretted chloride of ethyle, 420

Reichenbach, discovery of eupion, 377

Respiration modified by chloroform vapour, 69–70

—— quantity of chloroform sufficient to arrest the, 74, 115

—— artificial, its use, 121

—— artificial, applied in cases of death from chloroform, 139, 144, 150, 159, 163, 166, 167–8, 173, 179, 181, 183, 185, 187–8, 190, 191, 194, 196, 197, 207, 210

—— artificial, value of, in accidents from chloroform, 251–7

—— artificial, applied in case of death from amylene, 410, 413

Richardson, Dr. B. W., on syncope, 223

—— on the cause of the fluidity of the blood, 248

Ricord, M., on artificial respiration in accidents from chloroform, 252

Ridge, Dr. Joseph, on the death of John Hunter, 227

Rigaud, M., mode of administration of amylene, 417–18

Riggs, Dr., extraction of tooth for Horace Wells without pain, 15

Robert, M., on a case of death from syncope, 203

Roberts, Dr., reference to a death from chloroform, 200

Robinson, Mr., first administered ether in England, 18

—— case narrated by, 48

—— on case of alleged death from chloroform, 201

Robbs, Dr. William, on a case of alleged death from ether, 365–8