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—— during disease of the heart, 227

—— from mental emotion, 224–5; from anger, 227

—— from muscular exertion, 228; from pain, ib.

Table of fatal cases of inhalation of chloroform, 218–22

—— shewing ages of fatal cases from chloroform, 230

—— Dr. Fenwick’s, on result of operations after chloroform, 270

—— shewing quantity of chloroform vapour in air at various temperatures, 33

—— relating to ether, 347–8

—— shewing evaporation of amylene, 377

Teeth, extraction of, under chloroform, 313–18

—— number of, extracted under, 314

—— extraction, mode of administering chloroform for, 315

Tenotomy, performance of, under chloroform, 303–4

Tetanus, use of chloroform in, 335–6

—— treatment of, by inhalation of ether, 360–1

Testicle, removal of, under chloroform, 310–11

The administration of chloroform in the different kinds of operations, 271–318

The inhalation of chloroform in medical cases, 329–44

Theodoric on prevention of pain in operations, 5

—— his directions for securing patients during operation, 7

Thigh, amputation of, under chloroform, 276–7

Thompson, Dr. Thomas, chloric ether, 27

Tobacco smoke inhaled in Asia and Eastern parts of Europe, 12

Tongue, falling back of, supposed cause of death during inhalation of chloroform, 245

Tourdes, Professor, on amylene, 418

Treatment of suspended animation from chloroform, 251–62

Triquet and Masson, action brought against, for causing death by chloroform, 200

Trismus, occurrence of, in fatal case from chloroform, 174

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