DEATH FROM CHLOROFORM
[PBEBS ASSOCIATION TKI.KOHAM.] DUNEDIN, May 9.
A son of Captain Bussell, marine ourveyor, died this afternoon while having some teeth extracted by Mr J. P. Armstrong. The chloroform woa administered by Dr. Burns Twenty drops ware put on a handkerchief. The child was about ten years old, and had been taken to Mr Armstrong’s place for the purpose of having four decayed teeth drawn, and these were extracted, but the deceased did not recover consciousness, it being understood that the child died during the operation from the action of the heart ceasing. Dre. Ah-xandcr and Stenhouso wore called in, but their services wore of no avail, and the deceased died about half an hour after the chi >roform had been administered. An inquest will probably be held before Mr Watt in the course of a day or two. Death was occasioned by paralysis of the heart. Life was extinct within ten minutes after the chloroform had been administered-
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Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2523, 10 May 1882, Page 3
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161DEATH FROM CHLOROFORM Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2523, 10 May 1882, Page 3
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