Word: chloroformed
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...They watched their anesthetic with unusual care, for fat patients re-act badly to chloroform or ether...
Hypnotic drugs which induce sleep are often confused with the narcotics which dull pain. Bromides, sulphonal, veronal are hypnotics. Insomniacs take them habitually. Other habit-forming drugs are ether, alcohol, chloroform, hashish (the drug of inspired assassins) and mandrake,* sleepy syrup that comes from a forked root...
Died. Sport, St. Boniface dog, which bit a woman who was pulling its mistress' hair; in Winnipeg, by chloroform, following city trial and sentence...
...There are many ways of committing white slavery," suggested the Secretary of the Watch and Ward Society in a momentary digression. "One could do it by crouching in a dark alley with a slouch cap drawn over his eyes and a chloroform handkerchief in one hand and a pistol in the other ready to jump upon the victim and toss her unconscious into an automobile, and lock her up later in a room, or one can open a cafe and enliven it with music and attract young women there as a miller is drawn toward the light, then fill their...
...James Young Simpson (1811-1870), Scotch, was an influential champion of surgical anesthesia and of chloroform...