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Chloroform: The Quest for Oblivion
Chloroform The Quest for Oblivion
Author: Linda Stratmann
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 condi...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780750930987
ISBN-10: 0750930985
Publication Date: 1/1/2003
Pages: 256
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Publisher: The History Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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