Word: chloroforms
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...angina pectoris, in electric shock, in chloroform or benzol poisoning, a certain toxic factor is developed in the blood which upsets the heart's regular timing. From two first stages of disorganization the heart can ordinarily recover. But if something mental or physical excites the accelerator nerve or stimulates the adrenals to pour an excess of adrenalin into the blood, the ventricles begin to fibrillate. And shortly the heart tires and stops...
...anesthetic is called, may open a new field in the prevention of pain. If we can judge by the report of the doctors of Mt. Sinai Hospital, the drug can be used under almost any circumstances, and, most especially, its effect on the heart is quite slight compared to chloroform and ether. Since quick injection in emergency cases is provided by the convenience of the hypodermic injection, it will doubtless become an essential part of the ambulance surgeon's equipment. From dentist to veterinary, this achievement will mean the opening...
...services of the governments in power. Control of the press and the radio, from which are derived control of men and industry, has become a far more facile instrument of power than divine right. Russia is perfecting her technique for mass anesthetisation; Hitler is applying the social chloroform of organized propaganda at this very moment. Every means of intellectual expression at once falls to the purpose of perpetuating the intelligent regime. That in itself should give unlimited life to any dictatorship strong enough to weather its own adolescence, since an opposition without a voice is as inaudible as the underworld...
...often with loss of only toes and fingers or superficial slough... ''Students and young doctors were trained in emergency surgery and anes thesia. Their Peiping Union Medical College training proved a splendid foundation and proficiency was rapidly obtained. One thousand and seventy-seven operations were performed under chloroform anesthesia with no immediate fatality or accident. The work was divided between the two operating tables, both functioning at the same time. . . . Artificial peg legs were made from wood, plaster, and leather at cost of less than...
...Queen Victoria had herself drugged with chloroform to soothe the labor of bearing Prince Leopold in 1853, and Princess Beatrice in 1857. Her gestures popularized the uses of chloroform, ether and nitrous oxide as anesthetics. Dr. John Snow (1813-58) who induced Queen Victoria to take the chloroform, had developed methods of administering anesthetics throughout an entire operation. For that the anesthetists last week saluted his memory...