| Description Of Item | Journal article cutting on a new method of preventing death from chloroform and other methods of anaesthesia from Henri de Parville’s ‘Causeries Scientifiques, 1868’. Details remedies for chloroform to be sprinkling cold water, tickling the pharynx, flagellation, and placing the subject in either an erect or recumbent position, inhalations on artificial oxygen, and as a last resource: faradisation (i.e. therapeutic application of an electric current). Details how Doctors [Ernest] Onimus and [Charles] Legros from Duchenne, France - have undertaken animal testing to determine continuous electrical currents as more effective than intermittent ones. This cutting is from the collection of Thomas Laycock. |