Arguments against the indiscriminate use of chloroform in midwifery / [Samuel William John Merriman].

  • Merriman, S. William J., 1814-1873.
Date:
1848
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Credit: Arguments against the indiscriminate use of chloroform in midwifery / [Samuel William John Merriman]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ARGUMENTS AGAINST THE INDISCRIMINATE USE OF CHLOROFORM IN MIDWIFERY. The discovery of ether, chloroform, &c., and their appli¬ cation to surgery and midwifery, form a very interesting history, but on the present occasion .such a narration would be tedious ;—the history is so recent that it must be in the memory of all;—I shall therefore at once proceed to the immediate subject of this essay—viz., to consider whether Chloroform, taken as the type of anaesthetic agents, is calculated to be useful or injurious, generally, in midwifery. A great many letters and essays have appeared in the medical periodicals, some giving an account of the benefit derived from the exhibition of chloroform, a few showing that it disturbed the Jiealthy action previously going on, and others deprecating its use as objectionable and improper, but none that I have seen have taken up the subject on sufiiciently general principles, the only form of