DEATH DURING CHLOROFORM INHALATION.

Case of Acute Pulmonary Œdema during Chloroform Inhalation—Death *Paper read at the Bombay Medical and Physical Society, July, 1899.

was going to vomit and turned him on his side. Instead of vomit, however, froth, reddish in colour, began to pour from his mouth and nostrils, and he became cyanosed. The froth was cleared out of his mouth, but it refilled again immediately. We then drew him up the table and allowed his head to hangover the end, in order that the froth might run out, and his mouth was wiped out again and again....

Death under Chloroform

An unusual autoerotic fatality associated with chloroform inhalation.

We report the death of a young male attributed to chloroform poisoning during autoerotic asphyxia. He was found lying on the floor of his apartment, prone on a piece of foam and a towel. His eyes were bound with a towel, his lower face and nose were almost entirely covered with duct tape surrounding a rubber hose in his mouth. The other end of the hose was loosely sitting inside an open bottle ...

A Case of Puerperal Convulsions. Treated with Chloroform Inhalation

snore loudly, and as she could not be roused, the door was forced, and the girl was found lying flat on the floor quite insensible, her breathing stertorous, eyes semi-closed, jaws locked, features distorted, and a stream of bloody froth running out from both the angles of the mouth, her muscles rigid, her dress saturated with urine, voided involuntarily, with violent convulsions occurring almo...

An unexplained death: Hannah Greener and chloroform.

HANNAH Greener of Winlaton, near Newcastle in the United Kingdom, died more than 150 yr ago, on January 28, 1848, after receiving a chloroform anesthetic for the removal of a toenail. She was a healthy 15-yr-old girl who had successfully undergone an anesthetic with diethyl ether several months before for the removal of another toenail. Hers was the first death (fig. 1) attributed to the new an...