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(medicine, archaic) One who uses chloroform as an anaesthetic..
But his whole account of the correspondence between the chloroformist, by profession, and our colleague is erroneous.
This must be a result of the quality of the chloroform, of the quantity used in a given time, of the mental and bodily condition of the patient, of the care and skill of the chloroformist, and of the patience of the surgeon who has to operate; for if he be in a hurry, and pull out his watch, and if the chloroformist take the hint, and push the vapour suddenly, the patient is in imminent risk.
In the Lancet cases the methods of giving the anaesthetic were almost uniformly dangerous even in the hands of the most expert and experienced chloroformist.
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Chloroformist means (medicine, archaic) One who uses chloroform as an anaesthetic..
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But his whole account of the correspondence between the chloroformist, by profession, and our colleague is erroneous.
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