RECOVERY FROM APPARENT DEATH FROM CHLOROFORM.

Recovery after Apparent Death

Death from Rupture of the Spleen Twenty-Five Days after Abdominal Injuries and Apparent Recovery

own request, and he went home during the puja days and returned and stayed in a place about a mile from the hospital and attended the hospital on foot for general weakness and slight pain here and there for about a week. On the 13th October, that is on the ninth day of his discharge from the hospital, he went to the court compound after his mid-day meal to depose before the Magistrate as that w...

Insanity from Chloroform

During a discussion in the early part of the present session, at the Westminster Medical Society, when a paper was read by Professor Murphy, advocating the use of chloroform in midwifery, Dr. Webster, according to the reports published in the medical journals, mentioned three cases of insanity supervening after the employment of the above powerful agent during childbirth; to which he afterwards...

Death under Chloroform

Recovery from N-hydroxyurethan-induced death.

Bacteria (Escherichia coli) can recover from the lethal action of N-hydroxyurethan when they are incubated in drug-free liquid medium. This recovery, which is dependent upon energy metabolism, does not occur on solid medium. Recovery is accompanied by repair of the cellular deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). A bacterial mutant deficient in DNA polymerase was extremely sensitive to the lethal action o...