# On chloroform and other anæsthetics: their action and administration

Author: Snow, John, 1813-1858; Richardson, Benjamin Ward, 1828-1896 [Editor]

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68315

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## Summary

_Case 18._ I am indebted for my information respecting this case to Dr. James Adams, of Glasgow, who was good enough to send me a copy of the notes respecting it, from the case book of his colleague, Mr. Lyon, in whose practice, in the Glasgow Infirmary, the case occurred, in March 1850. The patient was a boy seven or eight years old, from the Highlands, whose health was considerably impaired by years of suffering from calculus. Mr. Lyon says, “being laid in bed, I placed a piece of lint, moistened with chloroform, near to his face, when, in a few minutes, he ceased crying. I now told my clerk to take charge of the chloroform, and introduced the sound. I thought I detected a calculus, but...

## Chapters

- [did. The mucous membrane of the larynx and bronchial tubes were slightly](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/on-chloroform-and-other-an-sthetics-their-action-and-administra-9268d66b/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Book iv, 73–5.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/on-chloroform-and-other-an-sthetics-their-action-and-administra-9268d66b/chapters/2/index.md)