The Glasgow Committee on Anæsthetics

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 [Joseph] 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 dichloroethane (ethidene dichloride).[1]

References

  1. ^ Thomas, K Bryn (1974-08). "Chloroform: Commissions and Omissions" (PDF). Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine 67 (8): 723–730. PMC 1645794. PMID 4609043. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=1645794. Retrieved 2010-12-24. 
Chloroform Committees and Commissions
1847
(Chloroform first used)
1864
1877
The Glasgow Committee on Anæsthetics (British Medical Association)
1888

First Hyderabad Commissions

(Surgeon-Major Lawrie of the Bengal Medical Service appointed by the Nizam: Mahbub Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VI). · See also: Lawrie's Apparatus
1889
Second Hyderabad Commission (Surgeon-Major Lawrie with T. Lauder Brunton FRS of St. Bartholomew's Hospital)
1891
British Medical Association Anæsthetics Committee (British Medical Association)
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
American Medical Association Committee on Anæsthesia (American Medical Association) - ban chloroform
The list shown in this table is referenced, to view its references see: Template:Chloroform committees and commissions.