Word: chloroforming
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Before the. discovery of chloroform, hypnotism was used in operations to clear the patient's mind of fear, and in favorable subjects to induce a definite anaesthesia so that no pain was felt (TIME, Nov. 14). Almost any willing subject can be hypnotized, but the best patients are those already suffering from some mental or physical shock, or some habit which has already weakened their resistance. Hypnotism is a process of mental dissociation during which all activity is quiescent; no desire, no antagonism, no conflict. In this condition any suggestion registers powerfully and will be carried into action either...
...When I got hold of a big bull horned toad one day I saturated a rag with chloroform and held it under his nose long enough to have killed a bulldog...
...cigar box and saturated cotton with a teacupful of chloroform and put that in there with him, and then placed a pound weight on the box lid. The next morning Mr. Toad was gone. He had pulled a Houdini during the night and disappeared...
...nauseating after-effects of usual anesthetics. Such operations upon hypnotized patients are rare in the U. S. In Europe (notably in France and Germany) they are frequent. Europeans esteem the uses of hypnotism. They used it for surgical operations 100 years ago. The discovery in 1848 of chloroform's anesthetic properties curtailed the practice somewhat. But, notably at Nancy, France, hypnotism continued in operating rooms...
...President Bizzell might have taken an emetic, or gulped down some ice cream or cracked ice ; or tried some chloroform, musk or morphine; or put a hot water bottle on his stomach or cervical spine; or merely stuck out his tongue as far as he could strain. These are various means of calming hiccoughs. The hiccough results from a spasm of the victim's diaphragm, which suddenly descends and causes the lungs to suck in a draft of. air. The air strikes against the partially closed glottis to cause the characteristic ripping cough. Frequent attacks of hiccoughs may accompany...