Chloroform Committee

The Chloroform Committee was commissioned by the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society (now known as the Royal Society of Medicine) in 1864 to investigate the use of chloroform.^[1] The committee recommended the use of chloroform in the same year (although ether was safer for patients).^[2][3] It was the first of such committees (see the box at the bottom of this page) and concluded that chloroform depresses the action of the heart and frequently kills. One of the members, Joseph Clover, during his time on the committee developed apparatus for using chloroform called the Clover bag.^[1]

References

Chloroform committees and commissions 1847 (Chloroform first used) Antique bottles of chloroform 1864 Chloroform Committee Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society See also: Clover bag 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 The Special Chloroform Committee of the British Medical Association British Medical Association 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.