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Updated: May 18, 2025
He had heard the rumble of talk which had followed the first stifled cry from Doran when the sponge of chloroform was thrust into his face, and every now and again he had heard Frencham Altar's voice ring out high and mocking and exasperatingly like his own. Finally the front door had slammed but he remained concealed for over an hour in case of misadventure.
We took a fair quantity at Manassas, but God only knows the amount we could use! Now." The man stretched on the boards motioned with the hand that had not been torn by the exploding shell. "No, no! I don't want it. Keep it for some one with a leg to cut off!" He smiled, a charming, twisted smile, shading into a grimace of pain. "No chloroform at Yorktown!
However that might be, he had persuaded her that Katie was dead, dead from the effects of the chloroform they had forced her to take. And now that he had really committed a felony by selling the three negroes to a West Indian smuggler, he was not inclined to confess the truth.
Consequently chloroform soon came to be generally preferred; but abundant experience has finally shown that ether is much the safer agent of the two, and improved methods of administration have almost entirely done away with the objections to its use, so that now it is looked upon as the preferable general anaesthetic.
"I suppose they have named it after Sir George Grey, because he is a two-faced bloke." "Well then tell me about 'locusing, and 'bellowsing." "Locusing is putting a chap to sleep with chloroform, and bellowsing is putting his light out. In other words, drugging and murder." "Now then, shew me how to hang a fellow up, or put the 'flimp' on him, as you call it." "D'ye see that bone in the wrist?
If an operation had to be performed and at that time chloroform was so newly invented that the doctors were almost afraid to give it, Miss Nightingale, 'the Lady-in-Chief, was present by the side of the wounded man to give him courage to bear the pain and to fill him with hope for the future.
In the twilight, I saw him there the man I called my father holding the bottle to your face, that wicked bottle of chloroform, with his revolver in one hand, and a calm smile like a fiend's playing hatefully and cruelly round that grave-looking mouth of his. I never saw any man look so ghastly in my life. I was rooted to the spot with awe and terror. I dared hardly cry out or move.
Winterbotham's about the chloroform, for I used it whenever the first sign of a fit of coughing appeared, and so warded off the convulsive attack and the profound exhaustion that followed, in which a mere flicker of breath at the top of the throat was the only sign of life, and sometimes even that disappeared, and I thought her gone.
He has seen less of it than any one; saw only the white walls and the mosquito curtains; smelled the heavy odours of ether and chloroform and antiseptics; heard faintly and more faintly the drone of an aeroplane overhead; saw also the padre, rather white too, but determined to get accustomed to this sort of thing, in case they should be short-handed when the great 'push' comes.
Huge shells fell in the house, and the shock from the explosion and the effects of the gas had knocked out Staff Captain Pope. The gasses acted on him, and many others, like chloroform, so that for a time he lost his reasoning power and appeared to be delirious. He had to be carried away.
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