Chloroform: The Quest for Oblivion

by Linda Stratmann

Book Overview

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 was first practised, it was commonly seen as traumatic for doctors were being asked to induce a condition looked upon as partial death. Viewed with suspicion, many feared that they would never wake again,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0750930985
• ISBN13: 9780750930987
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: History Press (SC)
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 8.3"