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Southern Medical and Surgical Journal (1853)
Southern Medical and Surgical Journal - 1853 Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: child, during which time she was perfectly conscious and suffered in the usual manner. I saw her the first and second days after her delivery, and never was she ... more »more cheerful or her intellect more unclouded. On the third day, she was attacked with puerperal inflammation, of which she died five or six days subsequently. There was nothing in her case which could justify the suspicion that the Chloroform had any agency in her death. I had myself given it to her in some of her previous labors, and with the happiest effects, and would mos.t certainly have done so again had I been present, nor do I know why it was suspended—but such is the history of her case. I am, very Respectfully, "K. V. M.MlLLEE." All or nearly all the popular reports of death from Chloroform in Obstetric practice, would, we believe, be found to have no more foundation in truth than the above. During the last year or two, there have been reported in the Northern journals two or three cases, the authenticity of which we would not call in question, nor would we be understood as regarding the use of Chloroform in Midwifery entirely free from danger; it is only contended that it is comparatively safer than in Surgical or Dental practice. We would desire most earnestly to impress on our yoimger brethren the importance of the greatest care and circumspection in its administration. Instead of concealing the fact that fatal cases have occurred, we would rather point to them as beacons to warn the unwary of the danger that may result from the careless and indiscriminate use of this truly potent and valuable agent. The comparatively greater safety of Chloroform and other anesthetics in Obstetrics, than in Surgical or Dental practice, may be accounted for by the mode of administering it, the circumstances of...« less