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 book before us will be read with interest by those in whose memory the chloroform polemic is still green. It consists essentially of a physiological and clinical part. With regard to the former, ...

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