Cochran J. Administration of chloroform by deglutition, 1867.

Catalog Record: Cochran J. Administration of chloroform by deglutition, 1867.

Title: Administration of chloroform by deglutition / by Jerome Cochran.

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Author: Cochran, Jerome, 1831-1896.

WLM Call Number: WO 278 C5 C643 1867 RB

Accession NO.: RB9024

Publisher: Nashville, Tenn : University Medical Press ; W.H.F. Ligon, Printer, 1867.

Physical Descrip 26 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject: Administration, Oral.
Subject: Chloroform – administration & dosage.

Abstract: Cochran discusses oral administration of chloroform for pain relief.
He presents a historical account of the discovery of chloroform and its
anesthetic properties. Cochran calls attention to Jacob Bell’s
description of particular anesthetic properties of chloroform published
in the Pharmaceutical Journal in February of 1847 – 9 months before
James Young Simpson’s discovery in November, 1847.

General Notes: Digitized by Northern Micrographics in Batch 15, December 2014.

General Notes: Read before the Mobile Medical Society in Alabama in April 1866.