Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 180, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1916 — MAY FORCE CHLOROFORM USE [ARTICLE]

MAY FORCE CHLOROFORM USE

French Likely to Make Use of Anesthetic Compulsory in Army Surgery. Paris. —The French Academy of Medicine is considering the advisability of recommending the government to ttiake the use of chloroform compulsory in the army, not only In serious operations but also in all cases where 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 where the latter are declared to be necessary by the doctor. ‘ • -