| Description Of Item | A press cutting from the Medical Times and Gazette reporting on a round of questioning Benjamin Ward Richardson received at a lecture after two deaths occurred because of chloral hydrate. Originally he was lecturing on a different topic but started the lecture in this way because he’d been asked for advice about chloral hydrate frequently since the deaths. He gave advice on dosage and claimed that now more chloral hydrate was bought by the general public than by medical professionals.
From the collection of Thomas Laycock. |