Beaver County News | 1916-07-28 | Page 2 | May Force Chloroform Use

MAY FORCE CHLOROFORM USE French Likely to Make Use of Anesthetic Anes-thetic Compulsory in Army Surgery. Paris. The French Academy of Medicine is considering the advisability advisabil-ity of recommending the government to make the use of chloroform compulsory compul-sory in the army, not only in serious operations but also in all cases svhere the treatment is painful. At present French soldiers are obliged to submit to vaccination against smallpox and typhoid fever, but they cannot be compelled to accept chloroform against their will. A committee has been formed to study the question as well as that of rendering compulsory the injection of serums in all cases svhere the latter are declared to be necessary by the doctor.