The dangers of chloroform and the safety and efficiency of ether, as an agent in securing the aviodance of pain in surgical operations : with a description of an ether inhaler and the mode of administration / by J. Morgan.

  • Morgan John, 1820-1891.
Date:
1872
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Credit: The dangers of chloroform and the safety and efficiency of ether, as an agent in securing the aviodance of pain in surgical operations : with a description of an ether inhaler and the mode of administration / by J. Morgan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    P E E F A C E. In drawing attention to the subject of the Dangers OF THE Use of Chloboform, when compared with the ADVANTAGEa AND SaFETY OF THE UsE OF EtHER, in producing insensibility to pain, I am influenced by having practically observed the difficulties, and witnessed the anxieties inseparable from its xise, which oppress the Surgeon Avhen undertaking an operation. In addition, on impartially and calmly reviewing the subject, and analysing the exijerience of years, I find that Ether has infinitely superior claims as to Safety and Efficiency. Great Britain and America have each produced theirnational anesthetics, Chloroform being the child of the former, and Ether of the latter. VYc find that Claloroform, which since 1848 has been largely used in tliis country, is still looked on Avith a certain amount of suspicion and distrust by the majority of practitioners ; and that the most scrupulous directions and abundant warnings are given by -writers, to pre- vent any accidental complication which might in- crease an already fully recognised danger. a 2