Part 65

Soubeiran, M., on analysis of chloroform, or chloric ether, 27

Spasm as preceding death from chloroform, 129

Spasmodic pain, treatment of, with chloroform, 342

Squire, Mr., invention of an ether inhaler by, 18

Stafford, Mr. Augustus, treatment of case of, 342–3

Stertor under chloroform how to be met, 90

St. Louis Hospital, surgeon of, on number of deaths from chloroform, 200

Strabismus, operation for, under chloroform, 297

Strength and debility in relation to effects of chloroform, 50

Stricture, operations for, with chloroform, 276

Struggling and rigidity under chloroform how to be met, 91, 92, 93

—— and rigidity under amylene, 401–2

—— exhaustion from, a supposed cause of death from chloroform, 238–9

Supposed causes of death from chloroform, 228–45

Surgeon’s knife, supposed effects of, during inhalation of chloroform, 240–3

Sylvester, Dr., on anæsthetics, 7

Symptoms in cases of death from chloroform, 124, 127–8, 130, 131, 135, 137, 139, 142, 143, 144, 146, 147, 148, 149, 151, 153, 154, 155–6, 157–8, 159, 161, 162, 163, 163–4, 165, 166, 167–8, 170–1, 172–3, 174, 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

—— in alleged cases of death from chloroform, 201–205, 206–7, 209–10

Symptoms in fatal cases of inhalation, summary of, 212–17

—— to be attended to during administration of chloroform, 249–50

—— in cases of death from amylene, 409–10, 412–13

Syncope sometimes prevented by chloroform, 77–8

—— after chloroform, 104

—— possible deaths from, independently of chloroform, 204–9, 211–12

—— anæmic, distinguished from cardiac, 204; description of, 222–4

—— the two kinds of, 222–8

—— condition of heart during, 223–6

—— does not commence at the brain, 223