NO MORE DEATHS UNDER CHLOROFORM.

Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 58, 5 September 1885, Page 1 (Supplement)

NO MORE DEATHS UNDER CHLOROFORM.

A French surgeon says that on chloroforming some mice and lifting them by their tails, they tried to bite, but on laying them again in a horizontal position, they resumed insensibility. Acting on this hint, when a patient showed signs of collapse under a dose of chloroform, he dropped the patient's head over the bedside, and raised the feet quite high. The patient at once became conscious ; when laid straight on the bed he became insensible again, and a return to lowering the head and raising the feet for ten minutes was required to counteract the chloroform. It is thought that by this treatment anaesthetics may be used with great safety. An Australian newspaper says : — A short time ago Mr. Garland gave a vivid description of how 'he restored a female patient (to whom he administered chloroform) from a threatened fatal syncope, by inverting her. He showed that consciousness was restored immediately after the head was placed downward. This very important bit of experience has just received auxiliary confirmat-

ion. A French physician writes to say that when he has put rabbits under chloroform for vivisection purposes, he has invariably found them restored to consciousness as soon as he hung them head downwards. This is another of the wicked results of vivisection experiments.