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Leroy D. Vandam, MD

JAMA. 1985;253(16):2415.

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"I was proceeding to apply more [chloroform] to the handkerchief, when her lips, which had been previously of good colour, became suddenly blanched, and she sputtered at the mouth, as if in epilepsy. I threw down the handkerchief, dashed cold water in her face, and gave her some internally, followed by brandy without, however, the least effect, not the slightest attempt at a rally being made. We laid her on the floor, opened a vein in her arm, and the jugular vein, but no blood flowed. The whole process of inhalation, operation, venesection, and death, could not, I should say, have occupied more than two minutes."¹ In 1848, thus wrote surgeon T. M. Meggison, who gave the anesthetic, while Mr Lloyd began to excise a toenail from the foot of Hannah Greener, a healthy girl of 15 years. After postmortem examination and the inquest, Sir John Fife, distinguished surgeon . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Harvard Medical School Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston

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