DEATH UNDER AN ANAESTHETIC.

Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 13052, 11 March 1911, Page 6

DEATH UNDER AN ANAESTHETIC.

[United Phess Association.]

Ghristchurcft, March 10.

At the inquest on the death of Mr. Henry Mortimer Leathern, who died undor an anaesthetic at the Christchurch Hospital yesterday, evidence showed that the deceased was a strong muscular man, and that all his organs wero healthy. Dr. Talbot, who made the post mortem, said that death was due to paralysis or the heart, caused by til'? patient's violent struggles under the anaestlibtie, whitj'.i, iin this ease, was a mixture of chloroform and ether in equal parts. Death was due to an accident which could not be. fore-sr-pn.

I'hb Coroner, recorded a. verdict that death was duo to paralysis of the heart when an operation was about to be performed for hernia. He remarked that the medical evidence Jiad made it quite clear that the casualty could not have been foreseen in any circumstances, and was olio of those remarkable occurrences that could not be. accounted for.