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Chloroform is a clear, colourless, volatile liquid which is used in the production of refrigerants and as a fluoropolymer feedstock. It may be released into the environment from chlorodifluoromethane plants and from pulp and paper mills using chlorine-based chemicals for bleaching and disinfection purposes. Chloroform is also the principal by-product of water disinfectant processes. It is estimated that the vast majority of chloroform emissions into the environment are natural in origin. This publication, part of a series from the International Programme on Chemical Safety, evaluates the risk to human health and the environment posed by exposures to chloroform.
Linda Stratmann traces the social, medical and criminal history of chloroform, from early medical practices to create oblivion through the discovery of chloroform and its discovery, its use and misuse in the 19th century, to the present. Please note that unfortunately some of the global reviews are a result of this book being incorrectly listed as chloroform outside of the UK.
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Excerpt from Chloroform: Its Action and Administration I have endeavored in the following pages to present a brief resume of our present knowledge concerning chloroform and its effects. The subject is so important that it cannot need apology; the apology must he for the Author. My medical education commenced at a time when the vastness of the boon conferred by the discovery of the anaesthetic was just beginning to assert itself, and I was associated frequently with the late Dr. Snow, whose name is everywhere known in connection with the subject. For a considerable time also I was in the habit of administering chloroform at King's College Hospital, as well as in the practice of Mr. Fergusson ...
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