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Stand in the shower and you breath in minute amounts of chloroform (the result of the chlorination of water). Breath it in quantity and it acts as an anaesthetic as it demonstrates its best-known quality. This book reviews a chemical first discovered by Professor James Simpson in 1831 and charts its use and misuse since. Misuse includes a range of mayhem; and some memorable moments - America's first serial killer used chloroform to trap his victims. Conversely no lesser person than Queen Victoria dubbed it "that blessed chloroform". Its positive impact is unquestionable and the detail described of its early medical use, and the revolutionary effect it had on operations and patient care, is thorough. The book spans the social and medical changes its discovery and use set in train. Amongst the now common genre of books looking at aspects of the history of science, this is a somewhat technical one; its style is exemplified by the fact that some 15 per cent of its length is taken up with detailed references, a glossary and bibliography. Nevertheless those with an interest in this field will find it a valuable review. (Kirkus UK)
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Right up until the 19th century, physicians and philosophers regarded sleep as a state of near-oblivion in which there was no mental activity, a kind of halfway stage between wakefulness and death. For the Victorians, therefore, when anaesthesia was first practised, it was commonly seen as traumatic - for doctors wer
Stand in the shower and you breath in minute amounts of chloroform (the result of the chlorination of water). Breath it in quantity and it acts as an anaesthetic as it demonstrates its best-known quality. This book reviews a chemical first discovered by Professor James Simpson in 1831 and charts its use and misuse since. Misuse includes a range of mayhem; and some memorable moments - America's first serial killer used chloroform to trap his victims. Conversely no lesser person than Queen Victoria dubbed it "that blessed chloroform". Its positive impact is unquestionable and the detail described of its early medical use, and the revolutionary effect it had on operations and patient care, is thorough. The book spans the social and medical changes its discovery and use set in train. Amongst the now common genre of books looking at aspects of the history of science, this is a somewhat technical one; its style is exemplified by the fact that some 15 per cent of its length is taken up with detailed references, a glossary and bibliography. Nevertheless those with an interest in this field will find it a valuable review. (Kirkus UK)
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Right up until the 19th century, physicians and philosophers regarded sleep as a state of near-oblivion in which there was no mental activity, a kind of halfway stage between wakefulness and death. For the Victorians, therefore, when anaesthesia was first practised, it was commonly seen as traumatic - for doctors wer