Articles: chloroform-history.
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Anesthesia and analgesia · Nov 2020
Biography Historical ArticleThe Guthrie Boulder: A Forgotten Monument to Anesthesia in Chicago.
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Historical Article
How chloroform anesthesia reached Lowell, Massachusetts: From Simpson's pamphlet to Gladwin's advertisement.
J. Y. Simpson of Edinburgh, Scotland discovered chloroform anesthesia in November 1847. ⋯ Jackson's writings in the Boston Daily Atlas, S. F. Gladwin, a dentist in Lowell, Massachusetts, who had been reluctant to pay any ether royalties, demonstrated his independence and opportunism in swiftly adopting chloroform in his practice and publicizing its use through local advertisements.
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Biography Historical Article
A Forgotten Contribution to Early Anesthesia Literature: The Chloroform Problem: A Textbook Unrepresentative of Contemporary Opinion.
Dr. Richard Gill published a textbook in London in 1906 titled The CHCl3 - Problem. Gill was the Chief Chloroformist at St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, and was recognized as an excellent clinical anesthetist and was of an intelligent but reclusive and eccentric personality. ⋯ Gill was extensively quoted by one of his students who returned to Australia, Dr. John W Bean, which brought the book to the authors' attention. It was found on the Internet, and a copy from the Boston Medical Library had been scanned and was available as a print-on-demand.
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Biography Historical Article
A Newly Discovered Manuscript of Charles T. Jackson, MD, on the Preparation and Administration of Anesthetics for Humans and Animals.
A newly discovered handwritten manuscript of Charles T. Jackson, MD, contains instructions for the preparation and administration of sulfuric ether, information on Jackson's preferred mixture of ether and chloroform, an account of his experiments with other potential anesthetic agents, and his comments on etherizing cattle and other animals. Jackson's nine-page manuscript is believed to have been written in the autumn of 1851, around the time that he submitted his memorial on the discovery of etherization to Baron von Humboldt, and made a separate submission to the US Congress.
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Historical Article
The Perfect and Famous Anesthetic Known as Methyl in Boston in 1895.
Extravagant claims were made for proprietary dental anesthetics in Boston, MA, in the late 1800s. For instance, in 1883, Urial K. Mayo introduced an inhaled Vegetable Anaesthetic comprised of nitrous oxide that had been uselessly pretreated with botanical material. ⋯ In 1895, the Dental Methyl Company advertised an agent they called Methyl, a supposedly perfect topical anesthetic for painless dental extraction. The active ingredient was probably chloroform. Anesthetic humbug did not cease in Boston on Ether Day of October 16, 1846.