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Chloroform (continued): : 
difference of susceptibility of different animals 
to, 140 (footnote). 
overdose from too long administration cause of 
most deaths under, 142. 
careless administration accountable for deaths 
during trivial operations, 142; requisites for 
safety in giving, 142. 
author’s method of administering, 143. 
test of anaesthetic effect, 143. 
case of insusceptibility to, 143 (footnote). 
suspension of reflex action under, 143. | 
most safely given in horizontal position, 147 
(footnote). : ; , 
not applicable when assistance of patient 1s 
required, 148. 
in operations involving copious haemorrhage 
into mouth, 148. 
does not increase risk of pyaemia, 148 (footnote). 
diminished mortality after lithotomy following 
introduction of, 148 (Cadge quoted 1n footnote). 
summary of rules for its administration, 149. 
Chloroform (1870): safety of, author’s experience, 
149; Syme’s experience, 149 ; no death from, in 
Edinburgh or Glasgow Royal Infirmaries, 1861— 
70, 149. 
obstructed respiration from falling back of 
tongue under, 151. 
varieties of its effects on cerebral and spinal 
centres, 152. 
differences in relation of sensation to conscious- 
ness under, 152. 
abolition of reflex action under, 152. 
occasional cessation of thoracic movements 
under, 152. 
idiosyncrasies in relation to, 152. 
different behaviour of patients under, 152. 
eyeball reflex not unvarying indication of 
anaesthesia, 152. 
relaxation of sphincters of bowel and bladder 
under, 152. 
sighing respiration under, 152. 
failure of cardiac ganglia extremely rare, 153. 
discovery of, confused with discovery of anaes- 
thesia, 153. 
Chloroform (1882): largely superseded by ether in 
Great Britain, 155. 
action of, on heart, 157. 
effects of, on heart according to dosage (Snow), 158 
effect of, on heart and respiration, 159. 
administration still (1882) entrusted by author 
to senior students, 160. 
operations under, on patients with diseased 
hearts, 160. 
case of death under, in author’s practice, 160. 
Paul Bert’s law of percentages, 162. 
zone maniable (Paul Bert), 162. 
varying susceptibility to chloroform in different 
animals, and in the same animals at different 
times, 163. 
importance of mild but constant atmosphere in 
administration of, 165. 
danger of allowing recovery from time to time 
(Kirk), 166. 
causes after-sickness more than ether, 166. 
administration of, by means of drop bottle and 
flannel bag, 167. 
experiments as to amount and time required for 
production of anaesthesia, 170. 
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Chloroform (continued) : 
applicable whenever an anaesthetic is wanted, 172. 
mixture of, with ether and alcohol, 174. 
collapse under, treated by inversion, 172. 
treated by artificial respiration, 173. 
mixture of, with ether and alcohol as a preventive, 
174. 
inhalation of nitrite of amyl, 174. 
preliminary hypodermic injection of morphia as 
a preventive of collapse, 174. 
Chloroform Committee of the British Medical 
Association : experiments of, 158. 
Chloroform and ether: their respective advantages, 
154. 
Chloroform fright: fatal case of, 161. 
Chloroform-giver: special appointment of, not 
only unnecessary but dangerous, 150. 
Chloroform mask: devised by author, 168. 
details of administration by this means, 169. 
advantages of, 171. 
Chromatoporous cells in frog’s skin, 50, 51. 
arrangement of pigment granules in, 52, 53. 
action of galvanic shock on granules, 55. 
movements of granules, 55, 56. 
physiological interest of these movements as 
instances of vital action, 56. 
functions of, under control of nervous system, 56. 
author’s experiments, 57, 58, 59. 
tendency to diffusion after liberation from con- 
trol of nervous centre, 59. 
accommodation of tint of skin to that of sur- 
rounding objects, 59. 
experiments showing this accommodation to be 
due to reflex action of light through optic 
nerves, 59, 60. 
concentration of, invariable result of action of 
nerves upon, 254. 
action of chloroform on, 255. 
effect of mechanical violence on, 255. 
effects of nervous influence on, 260. 
See also Pigmentary. 
Chyle : flow of, in mesenteric lacteals of mouse, 25. 
solid matter not absorbed by, 25. 
Cilia: effects of irritants on, 260. 
effect of chloroform on, 261. 
effects of galvanism on, 262. 
effects of heat on, 262. 
Circulation: effect on, of position of part, 176. 
stoppage of, by position and elastic bandage, 
177 ; experiment on horse, 177. 
effect of position not explained by simple 
hydraulic principles, 187. 
influence of position on, explained by vasomotor 
system, 188. 
effects of irritants on, in web of frog’s foot, 211, 
224. 
observation on cause of, 220. 
causes of, 240. 
Clarke, Lockhart: 
cord, 99. 
Clot, blood. See Blood. 
Cloth, folded: administration of chloroform with, 
140. 
Clover: ‘close’ method of administering ether, 156. 
his smaller ether inhaler, 157. 
COAGULATION OF BLOOD, FURTHER RE- 
SEARCHES ON (1859), 105. 
COAGULATION OF THE BLOOD (Croonian 
Lecture, 1863), 109. 
method of preparing spinal 
