THE toxic effects of chloroform on the liver are well known and feared. Studies on animals have suggested a similar role for other anesthetic agents, particularly the ethers. Goldschmidt, Ravdin and ...

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The older term "ether convulsions" is inappropriate since these attacks have been described as occurring as well under anesthesia employing nitrous oxide and oxygen, chloroform, vinethene, ethylene ...

In 1846, a dentist and a surgeon tried something dramatically new: the first public operation performed with anesthesia. Armed with a glass globe filled with ether, they anesthetized a patient and ...

Several men’s lives were ruined by their discoveries. They might have been better off had they never heard of anesthesia.