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Show CHLOROFORM KILLS. Denver Woman Succumbs to Anesthetic An-esthetic in Hospital. Denter Colo Oct 18 -A enguUrly snd death occurred at bt Josephs hospital In this clt) the manner of which is an exceeding!) ex-ceeding!) rare one In medical annals About 11 o clock )caierdat morning Mrs Arthur M Orace slotted from her homo at lit Clarkson street In compiny with a friend for St Josephs, where she was tn undergo n simple surgical operation A!o.iw1n,y lnln","s arter reaching the hoepllal she wis pliced In the operitlng room nnd operated upon by Dr W ti fnrM.',5..?rwr. "at Ing been placed under the Influence of chloiororm The operation lasted about flrteen minutes min-utes snd Immenijtci) upon Its conclusion Mrs (irace was placed upon a strtcher and carried to one or th. wards to revive Just as she was laid upon the bed she be name sensible and commenced to cry and then to the utter astonishment or her at-tendints at-tendints he gate one gasp and fell hack dead The entire time or her remotal from the operating table to the bed had not consumed more thnn two minute so that It wis Impossible either to do anything any-thing for her or to notify the ramlly of her condition The cause of death was chloroform anesthesia, tho chloroform acting Instantly upon the heart. Mrs (trace had undergone a similar operation about s )ear ii(,o and as sho was not subject to heart trouble no 111 effects were feared from the admlnlstra-Hon admlnlstra-Hon of the chloform The ens. Is an extremely ex-tremely rare one, not occurring ortener than once In '"in cases. |