Word: chloroforming
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From Midland, Dow indirectly serves the washwoman (with caustic soda in soap), the tiremaker (with sulphur chloride used in vulcanizing rubber), the shoe maker (sodium sulphide for tanning), the cleaner (chloroform and carbon tetrachloride), the dyer (synthetic indigo), the rayon maker (acetic anhydride...
...divinyl ether. Professor Isidor Schwaner Ravdin of the University of Pennsylvania, who used divinyl ether in 2,675 operations, praised this highly volatile liquid because a few deep inhalations cause complete unconsciousness. Recovery is very rapid. Nausea or vomiting rarely occurs after divinyl operations. It is less poisonous than chloroform, more poisonous than ether...
First doctor to soothe the pains of child-birth was Dr. James Young Simpson (1811-70) of Edinburgh. In 1847 he used chloroform. Doctors and ministers denounced him for interfering with God's will. Dr. Simpson persisted and died rich, knighted and famed. In 1913 Drs. Bernard Kronig & Carl J. Gauss of Freiburg, Germany, invented twilight sleep, which they induced by injecting a combination of morphine and scopolamine into a woman who was about to have a baby. Lapsing into a dreamy state, the mother knows what is going on but feels little, gives no wilful assistance to Nature...
...Central Park Zoo. Then a councilman dug up an old Connecticut law against caging eagles, announced that Uncle Sam had been illegally imprisoned all these years. "The best thing and the most humane thing to do with it," wrote the New London Day's columnist, "is to chloroform it as quickly as possible and remove the dismal and unsightly cage from the park...
...whole. Dr. McCormick agrees with the facts deduced by Drs. Haggard & Greenberg. He also agrees with the inferences which Camels considered expedient to exploit. But alongside those chips of fact he placed other chips: morphine, cocaine, strychnine, chloral hydrate, carbon monoxide, bichloride of mercury, ether, chloroform, diphtheria, tuberculosis, syphilis, influenza, typhoid fever, burns, asphyxia, hemorrhage, cancer, all stimulate the adrenals, cause a similar chemical increase of sugar in the blood. In the case of the intoxicants, biochemists find a temporary "lift" similar to that of nicotine. In the case of the infections, there might also be a perceptible feeling...