Word: chloroformate
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Cardinal Mercier had persistent dyspepsia. There was a lesion of the stomach which a little surgical treatment would put quite to rights. But the doctors feared a 74-year-old heart might not take kindly to chloroform or ether. Without ado the Cardinal bade them anaesthetize him locally. Last week he lay on a table calmly watching a scalpel open his torso, calmly discussing with his surgeon such aspects of the human interior as he recalled from the studies made in his youth under famed Dr. Charcot in Pariss...
...studied nearly 2,000 brains of vertebrate animals including 13 educated persons. He advocated simplification of anatomic names, the dissection of cats as prerequisite to that of man, the use of chloroform in capital punishment, etc. He wrote What Young People Should Know, The Brain of the Sheep, and many other books and papers, chiefly on the brain. In 1910 he became emeritus at Cornell, but continued to lecture and write. He wrote the words and music of Fiat Justitia, an international hymn for the first Universal Races Congress. He set Old Ironsides (by Oliver Wendell Holmes) and The Peacemaker...
Among people of mediocre intelligence, Sir William Osier is chiefly remembered today as "the doctor who said that a man at 60 ought to be chloroformed." OSLER RECOMMENDS CHLOROFORM AT SIXTY blared the newspapers of the U. S. and Canada on a certain February morning in 1905. Dr. Osier had delivered an address in Baltimore the night previous. This is what he actually said...
...second fixed idea is the uslessness of men above 60 years of age, and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, political and in professional life if, as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age. ... Whether Anthony Trollope's suggestion of a college and chloroform should be carried out or not I have become a little dubious, as my own time is getting so short...
...Paris) has evolved a new anesthetic. He calls it "sommifere." In doses of 10-15 cubic centimetres, it is injected into the veins after previous injections of morphine or scopolamine, produces anesthesia complete enough for the longest and most serious operation. "This sopo- rific has all the effectiveness of chloroform without its disadvan- tages." No sickness follows it. No ill effects on liver and kidneys. The patient remains plunged in torpor from 24 to 36 hours afterwards, but can be roused for a few minutes at a time to take nourishment...