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An unconscious naked man lying on a table being attacked by little demons armed with surgical instruments; representing the effects of chloroform on the human body. Watercolour by R. Cooper.

Ether and chloroform : their employment in surgery, dentistry, midwifery, therapeutics, etc / by J.F.B. Flagg.

Sir J. Y. Simpson and two friends, having tested chloroform on themselves, lying insensible on the floor around a table. Pen and ink drawing.

On chloroform and other anaesthetics : their action and administration / by John Snow ; edited, with a memoir of the Author, by Benjamin W. Richardson.

On the administration of Chloroform in Dental operations

Case of strychnia-poisoning, and recovery under treatment with calabar bean and chloroform / by John White.

Chloroform

Surgical experience of chloroform / By James Miller.

Swanwick, Joseph Powell (1825-1909), M.R.C.S., Clerk to the Physicians, Manchester Royal Infirmary

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On the administration of Chloroform in Dental operations

Case of strychnia-poisoning, and recovery under treatment with calabar bean and chloroform / by John White.

Chloroform

Surgical experience of chloroform / By James Miller.

Swanwick, Joseph Powell (1825-1909), M.R.C.S., Clerk to the Physicians, Manchester Royal Infirmary