Part 64

Rudge, Mr. Henry, on treatment of puerperal convulsions with chloroform, 337–8

Saliva, increased flow of, from chloroform, 95

Sassard, Ambroise Tranquille, on narcotics before operations, 8

Scythians inhaled narcotic vapours, 11

Sequelæ of the inhalation of chloroform, 100–7; sickness, 100–3; faintness and depression, 103–4; hysteria, 104–6; head symptoms, 106–7

Serum of blood, absorption of chloroform by, 69

—— amount of, in blood, 74

Sibson, Dr., experiments with, on dividing pneumogastric nerves, 58

—— his mouth-piece for inhaler, 83

—— treatment of neuralgia by inhalation of ether, 361

—— experiments with chloroform, 119, 120

Sibson, Dr., on cause of death from chloroform, 121, 122

—— on blood in the heart after death, 134

Sideration, 133

Signs of insensibility under chloroform, 87

Silliman on chloric ether as a stimulant, 27

Simpson, Dr., on history of anæsthesia, 1

—— his introduction of chloroform, 17

—— on use of ether during parturition, 19, 359

—— first administers and recommends chloroform, 21–2

—— on the death of Hannah Greener, 126

—— on a supposed death from chloroform, 199

—— on sudden death during an operation without an anæsthetic, 245

—— statistics of operations after chloroform, 264–5

Sitting posture supposed cause of death during inhalation of chloroform, 239–40

Skull, raising depressed, under chloroform, 301–2

Society of Emulation of Paris, on death by chloroform, 122

Solly, Mr., on a case of death from chloroform, 143–5