On Chloroform. By Charles Kidd, M.D. (Renshaw.)—Dr. Kidd seems to
have had a large experience of chloroform, and wo need hardly say that many of the cases he cites are curious to the last degree. The case of the lady who had ten teeth extracted, and who described the process as a dream in which she was seized by a shark and rescued by the shark's teeth being drawn one after another—the crunch of the forceps on her own teeth being fortu- nately transferred to those of the shark—is, perhaps, the strangest in the book. But there are also many statements in it which will reassure those who have hitherto looked nervously on the administra- tion of chloroform and ether. Dr. Kidd combats the arguments ad- vanced by some doctors in favour of pain as a stimulant, and this will, no doubt, insure him the gratitude of all to whom such stimulants are objectionable. •
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