Chloroform. The Quest for Oblivion

Linda Stratmann

ISBN 10: 0750930985 / ISBN 13: 9780750930987

Edité par Sutton Publishing, Thrupp, Stroud, Glos., 2003

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258 pages. A history of the development and controversy surrounding Chloroform in anaesthesia in the 19th century. A very readable book for the layman. In clean and sound condition with a very good dust wrapper. Available for prompt dispatch from the UK. 5.5"x8.5".

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Chloroform. The Quest for Oblivion
• Éditeur: Sutton Publishing, Thrupp, Stroud, Glos.
• Date de parution: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0750930985
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780750930987
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • History
  • Health & Medicine

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Synopsis

Right up until the 19th century, physicians and philosophers regarded sleep as a state of near-oblivion in which there was no mental activity, a kind of halfway stage between wakefulness and death. For the Victorians, therefore, when anaesthesia was first practised, it was commonly seen as traumatic - for doctors were being asked to induce a condition looked upon as partial death. Viewed with suspicion, many feared that they would never wake again, or that they would lose their faculties on a permanent basis, even become insane. Yet, especially after Queen Victoria allowed its administration to her during childbirth, its use to block out pain became widespread. Tracing the social, medical and criminal history of chloroform, this book looks at early medical practices to create oblivion through the discovery of chloroform and its use and misuse in the 19th century, to the present. Today chloroform is no longer used as an anaesthetic, but has a multitude of uses in industry and medical research, including a role in DNA profiling. A by-product of the chlorination of water, we inhale infinitesimal amounts of chloroform every time we have a shower.

À propos de l?auteur

Linda Stratmann was born in 1948. When she was 16 she took a part-time job in Boots the Chemist and well remembers selling and dispensing Collis Browne's Chlorodyne. She currently works as a tax inspector. She also edits on a freelance basis. She has had a long-term interest in true crime and has done extensive research in this field. This is her first book.