Chloroform: The Quest for Oblivion by Linda Stratmann

Chloroform: The Quest for Oblivion

Linda Stratmann

288 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history science dark informative slow-paced
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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 w...

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