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The Glasgow Committee on Anæsthetics was formed in 1875 at the annual meeting of the British Medical Association in Edinburgh. A "large committee of notables, headed by Professor Lister" "to enquire into the report upon the use in surgery of various anaesthetic agents and mixtures of such agents". However, they did not succeed, but a subcommittee consisting of Davind Newman (a Pathological Chemist to the Western Infirmary) Joseph Coates (Pathologist to the Western Infirmary) and Professor McKendrik (Physiologist at Glasgow University) became known as the Glasgow Committee and began work in 1877.

They recommended the use of 1,1-dichloroethane (ethylidene dichloride).

References

  1. Thomas, K Bryn (August 1974). "Chloroform: Commissions and Omissions" (PDF). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine. 67 (8): 723–730. PMC 1645794. PMID 4609043.
Chloroform committees and commissions
1847(Chloroform first used)
Antique Chloroform Bottles
Antique bottles of chloroform
1864
1877
1888
1889
1891
1893
  • The Lancet commissioned Dudley Buxton to implement a questionnaire to report deaths, the method of induction and the clinical stance of chloroform.
1901
1912
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