Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1877 — Death By Anaesthetics. [ARTICLE]

Death By Anaesthetics.

Although deaths during the administration of anaesthetics are a comparatively small percentage, yet their total numbers, if a considerable period of time is embraced, seem somewhat formidable. Dr. Charles Anderson recently prepared a list of deaths during the use of chloroform in and near Cincinnati for thirty years past. He finds twenty cases, and in the journal which records this there happens to be mentioned four other cases of death by chloroform or ether—.they being recent, but all poi'prring iii this eot«utrv s