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On chloroform and other anaesthetics : their action and administration / by John Snow ; edited with a memoir of the author by Benjamin W. Richardson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Snow, John, 1813-1858.
- Series:
- Classics of Medicine Library.
- Classics of Medicine Library
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chloroform.
- Ether.
- Chloroform--19th century.
- Anesthetics--19th century.
- Medical Subjects:
- Chloroform--19th century.
- Anesthetics--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- xliv, 443 pages ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- Special edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Birmingham, Alabama : The Classics of Medicine Library, [1989]
- Contents:
- Historical introduction
- General remarks on inhalation
- Chloroform
- Physiological effects of chloroform
- Circumstances which influence or modify the effects of chloroform
- Amount of vapour of chloroform absorbed to cause the various degree of narcotism
- Preparations for inhaling chloroform
- Mode of administering chloroform
- Recovery from the effects of chloroform
- Occasional sequele of the inhalation of chloroform
- Cause and prevention of death from chloroform
- Fatal cases of inhalation of chloroform
- Alleged fatal cases of inhalation of chloroform
- Symptoms in fatal cases of inhalation of chloroform
- Mode of death in the accidents from chloroform
- The two kinds of syncope
- Supposed causes of death from chloroform
- State of the chief organs after death from chloroform
- Further remarks on the prevention of accidents from chloroform
- Treatment of suspended animation from chloroform
- Effect of chloroform on the results of operations
- Administration of chloroform in the different kinds of operations
- Chloroform in parturition
- The inhalation of chloroform in medical cases
- Sulphuric ether, or ether
- Amylene
- The monochlorurretted chloride of ethyle
- Illustrations.
- Notes:
- Facsimile reprint. Originally published: London : John Churchill, New Burlington Street, 1858.
- "Privately printed for the members of the Classics of Medicine Library"--Preliminary page.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Biotech Circ copy : Penn Medicine Internship class (1970) on their 50th anniversary.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Snow, John, 1813-1858. On chloroform and other anaesthetics.
- OCLC:
- 20004131
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