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Show i;tli-r jiis4Ctj Chloroform. Dr. Roger AViiliams has made a careful ex-tuiiiuaiioiA ex-tuiiiuaiioiA of the hospital books, from which it appears that in ten years chloroform was administered at St. Bartholomew's U.IJjn times with fatal results in ten casss, burnt; alotit one in 1,236. The most important result re-sult of Dr. Williams' investigations, however. Ls the di.covery that w hen ether instead ol chloroform had been used during the suaie period there were only three deaths out of 13,561 instances. Dr. Williams tells us he lias long been aware of the greater safety of ether, and be declares his belief that this is the conclusion towards which p;- ft ..;ui,a.f opinion is steadily moving. |
