Abstract
Ever since the first deaths resulting from the administration of ether and chloroform, there has been considerable discussion as to the manner in which they cause them. One of the most important contributions was that of the Hyderabad Commission, which concluded from its experiments on animals that chloroform kills by its effects on the respiratory system. Mellish believes that it exerts its bad effects primarily upon the circulatory system, an opinion which is supported by Leonard Hill. Practically all observers agree that chloroform causes lowering of blood pressure at all stages of the anesthesia. Ether produces a slower fall than chloroform. Whether the paralysis of the respiratory precedes or follows that of the circulatory systems is of but little practical importance, for the interval between them is so slight as to be almost imperceptible. The writer has in some cases observed a cessation of respiration before that of the heart's
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