Editor's Note: Shauna Devine, Ph.D., is a historian of Civil War and American medicine. She has a Ph.D. in medical history and currently holds a joint appointment as a research fellow at the Schulich ...
THE appointment of a Commission at the present time to investigate the action of chloroform as an anæsthetic might to many seem an anomaly. For the use of chloroform as an anæsthetic was introduced ...