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"Translation of Aschendorf's report on Death from Chloroform"

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London Medical Gazette
(7 February 1851): 261–62

Snow's initial discussion of the Aschendorf case of an alleged death from the administration of chloroform was in a letter written to M. B. Kesteven, a London surgeon.

He mentions the case on page 329 of "Cause and prevention of deaths from chloroform" (April 1852)

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summarizes the views he expressed to Kesteven on page 204 of On Chloroform (1858).


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